Posted August 25, 2009
I'm also interested in the Radical Traditionalists as well as Pessimism. Evola overlaps substantially with that group. He's anti-democracy, a cultural racist, anti-egalitarian and a number of other things that scare folks from your neck of the world. He also constructed one of the most fascinating metaphysical systems of the 20th century.
As far as I know these books are certainly banned because of the associations with Fascism. A lot of the rest of the stuff I own in political philo is controversial. You've probably never heard of most of it, especially the American and Weimar German stuff. Doesn't get read much in Europe.
I also have most of Gentile's books. Brilliant political philosopher, probably the greatest Hegelian scholar of all time, and wrote a magnificent treatise on education. Ghostwrote Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism, hence the damnatio memoriae.
Having had work censored in my own country, I tend to be very cognizant of these things.
I'm not neutral either especially towards Radical Traditionalists and Pessimism which explains why you find French existentialists incoherent.
About the books, you're right, they're nearly impossible to find for non-high graded academicians that may probably have restricted access to them. IMO That's a shame because, while I doubt loads of people would actually read them because of the socio-ideological censorship, they're considered to be dangerous/embarrassing for those who're banning them for obvious reasons...
