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Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex by Julius Evola

brisingr's review against another edition

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2.0

Will forever be torn over ranting school books, because should I rate it based on my own personal experience reading it or what it means for its field of study?

kongfis's review against another edition

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informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.0

melisaesra13's review against another edition

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3.0

O carte greoaie, dar cu un subiect interesant. Te plimbă prin toate mitologiile importante, încercând să explice prin prisma lor comportamentul sexual și tot ce ține de sfera sexului. Ca un filosof respectat, Julius Evola a trebuit să facă un act lung de „gimnastică mentală", să-i zicem. Ce vreau să spun e că a spus puține în cuvinte multe. Nu vreau să zic că nu am deprins nicio concluzie, deoarece nu știu dacă e un subiect din care poți trage o concluzie definitivă, dar este necesar să o mai recitesc.
Totuși, această fixație împotriva biologiei și psihologiei, mai ales a psihanalizei, mi s-a părut destul de nefondată și inutilă. În rest, ideile au fost bine dezvoltate, iar informațiile au fost chiar interesante.
Recomand pentru interesații de mitologie; cine caută un text serios din punct de vedere științific, nu este aceasta cartea. Dar merită citită.

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4.0

Fine, Julius! I'll give NoFap another try.

volbet's review

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

A story of sex and a phenomenology of phucking. That is what Evola set out to create with this book.

While I can't say Evola didn't succeed in his goal, I'm just left kinda empty by how he achieved his goal. There's a lot of interesting ideas and a parallels drawn up in these pages, but a good chunk of those are also lifted, in whole or in part, from other writers and theorists, like Georges Bataille, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Sigmund Freud.
Although, to Evola's credit, he does draw conclusions that are different from the three aforementioned authors. Evola is nothing if not consistent in his eternal strife towards a mystical epistemology and ontology. An eternal strife to dispute the materialistic and psychoanalytical explanations of human phenomenon.

But, that also means it sticks out all the more when Evola uses material and/or psychoanalytical explanations within his analysis to prove his point.
If your purpose is to demonstrate the lacking explanatory power of the scientific world view, it's strange how you would use scientific data to bolster your argument. 
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