Ride the Tiger

A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

By: Julius Evola, Joscelyn Godwin - translator, Constance Fontana - translator

Narrated by: Andy Rick

Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution

• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age
• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation

The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world. Everything that has come to predominate in the modern world is the direct antithesis of the world of Tradition, in which a society is ruled by principles that transcend the merely human and transitory.

Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our dissolute age examined in the light of the inner teachings of indestructible Tradition. Evola identifies the type of human capable of “riding the tiger,” who may transform destructive processes into inner liberation. He offers hope for those who wish to reembrace Traditionalism.

©1961; 2003 Edizioni Mediterranee, Rome. English Translation. by Inner Traditions International. All Rights Reserved. (P)2020 Inner Traditions Audio. All Rights Reserved.

Critic reviews

“Evola is one of the most interesting minds of the [world] war generation.” (Mircea Eliade, author of The Sacred and the Profane)

"One of the most difficult and ambiguous figures in modern esotericism." (Richard Smoley, in Parabola)

"Evola looks beyond man-made systems to the eternal principles in creation and human society. The truth, as he sees it, is so totally at odds with the present way of thinking that is shocks the modern mind." (John Mitchell, author of The New View over Atlantis)

Excellent

Hooked from the beginning. If anything give it a shot, you don’t have to accept the assertions as factual but it’s just cool to follow along and try to understand where the authors coming from.

Apophatic Transcendence

5% of the content is useful philosophical spiritual development, while the remaining 95% is frustrated acidic resentment about everything in the modern world. Wish that Evola would have evoked a higher sprit that 3 wouldn't have condemn as harshly however logically justified. Doesn't help that the narrator is awfully monotone and uninterested in the work.

This book saved me from nihilism

I’ve listened to this book over 6 times now, with every listen I learn and understand something new. As a black man in South Africa in 2023, I can’t help but appreciate how important it is not to ‘throw the baby out with the bath water’ when reading these colonial times European super intellectuals. Alot of difficult things to swallow, all of things I deeply resonate with.

Pure depth. High minded topics.

Spent many times rewinding to hear parts repeatedly. Our modern world is unaccustomed to such rich vocabulary and style of writing that i had to adjust. Very high minded and thought provoking. Worth another listen after i digest more literature if his. Ride the tiger…live in an opposing world as a test of who you are.

Boring narrator

To the narrator: please learn pronouncing foreign words properly. Most of them are just unintelligible.

aristocrat propaganda

old money European writes propaganda under a philosophical veil prescribing underclass subservience to traditionalist centralized government as a panacea to the problems of the 20th century. hog-wash.