Julius Evola’s Many Lives

Julius Evola died in Rome in 1974, and has since become one of the most important thinkers of the global radical right. T-shirts bearing his name and a 1940s photograph with a monocle in his left eye echo those adorned with Alberto Korda’s classic 1960 image of Che Guevara. Many of the graphics incorporate the title of Evola’s 1934 book Revolt Against the Modern World. It is hard to say how many of those who associate themselves with Evola this way have actually read Revolt or any of his other works, but some of the key thinkers of the radical right certainly have.