Ride the Tiger
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Ride the Tiger
| Full title | Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for Aristocrats of the Soul |
|---|---|
| Author | Julius Evola |
| Published | 1961 |
| Pages | 242 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Julius Evola’s late book for the “differentiated man” who finds his civilization spiritually exhausted and no surviving tradition to lean on: rather than resist a dissolving age or flee it, hold on through it until its force is spent — worked through nihilism, Nietzsche, existentialism, modern art, sexuality and drugs. |
Ride the Tiger
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in History, Historiography, and the Philosophy of History on its Fall 2025 reading list, at the end of a sequence running Löwith, Strauss, Fukuyama, Eliade and Heidegger — the twentieth century’s responses to the collapse of progress, with Evola the most radical of them. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
About this edition
Evola (1898–1974) was an Italian esoteric and traditionalist writer whose work has been a reference point for the European radical right, in his lifetime and since; the course assigns the book as a primary document in that lineage, not as an endorsement of it.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this is assigned in.
- Decadence — the wiki’s page on civilizational decline as a theory, which is the condition Evola takes as given.
- Individualism — his answer is addressed to an individual, because he assumes no institution survives to address.
- Philosophy of History — the course’s organizing question.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.