Tag: Carlo Michelstaedter
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Michelstaedter, Part 2
Previous: ⇐ Carlo Michelstaedter Part 1 Next: Giovanni Gentile ⇒ The is the second of two parts, in which Julius Evola details his intellectual debt to Carlo Michelstaedter. From Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico. In order to illuminate Michelstaedter’s central problem, it may be useful to connect the concept of insufficiency or lack to the Aristotelian concept…
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Carlo Michelstaedter, Part 1
There is a man in whom the demand of the real individual toward absolute value, toward conviction, has been confirmed in the modern epoch, like a lightning flash and in a reality intense with life; this man, who in the clearest way, by shattering all compromises by which the I has been able to take…
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Conviction and Rhetoric
Persuasion is to be in full possession of oneself, to not depend on others, to not be driven by deficiency or lack.
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To Be Considered a Man
For those young men who know too much, too soon. Lest anyone wake up in the morning with the belief that only he understands the world, we bring you this clip from Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498). This is what he learned as a young man from his time at the University of Ferrara. To be considered…
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The Creative Power of the Individual
The individual gives meaning and purpose to the world.