| Description |
xxxvii, 375 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part one: The world of tradition -- The beginning -- Regality -- Polar symbolism; the Lord of Peace and Justice -- The law, the state, the empire -- The mystery of the rite -- On the primordial nature of the patriciate -- Spiritual virility -- The two paths in the afterlife -- Life and death of civilizations -- Initiation and consecration -- On the hierarchical relationship between royalty and priesthood -- Universality and centralism -- The soul of chivalry -- The doctrine of the castes -- Professional associations and the arts; Slavery -- Bipartition of the traditional spirit; Asceticism -- The Greater and Lesser Holy War -- Games and victory -- Space, time, the Earth -- Man and woman -- The decline of superior races -- Part two: Genesis and face of the modern world -- The doctrine of the Four Ages -- The golden age -- The pole and the Hyperborean region -- The Northern-Atlantic cycle -- North and South -- The civilization of the mother -- The cycles of decadence and the Heroic cycle -- Tradition and antitradition -- The heroic-Uranian western cycle -- Syncope of the western tradition -- The revival of the Empire and the Ghibelline Middle Ages -- Decline of the Medieval world and the Birth of Nations -- Unrealism and individualism -- The regression of the castes -- Nationalism and collectivism -- The end of the cycle. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy.
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| Added Title |
Rivolta contro il mondo moderno. English
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| ISBN |
089281506X |
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9780892815067 |
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