Ride the Tiger

Julius Evolas final major work identifies the type of person capable of ' riding the tiger, ' who can give absolute meaning to life in a world of dissolution while transforming destructive processes into inner liberation." Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols and illusions of our modern age, offering hope for those who wish to reembrace Tradition.

Part 1: Orientations

1. The Modern World and Traditional Man
2. The End of a Cycle--"Ride the Tiger"

Part 2: In the World Where God Is Dead

3. European Nihilism--The Dissolution of Morals
4. From the Precursors of Nihilism to the "Lost Youth" and the Protest Movement
5. Disguises of European Nihilism--The Socioeconomic Myth and the Protest Movement
6. Active Nihilism--Nietzsche
7. "Being Oneself"
8. The Transcendent Dimension--"Life" and "More Than Life"
9. Beyond Theism and Atheism
10. Invulnerability--Apollo and Dionysus
11. Acting without Desire--The Causal Law

Part 3: The Dead End of Existentialism

12. Being and Inauthentic Existence
13. Sartre: Prisoner without Walls
14. Existence, "A Project Flung into the World"
15. Heidegger: "Retreating Forwards" and "Being-for-Death"--Collapse of Existentialism

Part 4: Dissolution of the Individual

16. The Dual Aspect of Anonymity
17. Destructions and Liberations in the New Realism
18. The "Animal Ideal"--The Sentiment of Nature

Part 5: Dissolution of Consciousness and Relativism

19. The Procedures of Modern Science
20. Covering up Nature--Phenomenology

Part 6: The Realm of Art--From "Physical" Music to the Drug Regime

21. The Sickness of European Culture
22. Dissolution in Modern Art
23. Modern Music and Jazz
24. Excursus on Drugs

Part 7: Dissolution in the Social Realm

25. States and Parties--Apoliteia
26. Society--The Crisis of Patriotic Feeling
27. Marriage and the Family
28. Relations between the Sexes

Part 8: The Spiritual Problem

29. The "Second Religiosity"
30. Death--The Right over Life

Notes
Index