Chapter 1: The Anti-Modern Side of Modernity
Chapter 2: Risorgimento Italy: Occultism, Politics, the Rise of the
Nation State, and Roman Traditionalism
Chapter 3: The Early Years (1898-1910): Avantgarde, Theosophy, and
Anti-Modernism
Chapter 4: The Schola Italica and the Rito Filosofico Italiano
(1910-1914): Initiation and Invention of Tradition in Modern
Italy
Chapter 5: The Great War and 'Pagan Imperialism' (1915-1920): A
Clash Between the Modern and the Traditional
Chapter 6: Fascism and Traditionalism: Modernity and Anti-Modernity
(1920-1925)
Chapter 7: The UR Group and the End of a Dream (1923-1929)
Chapter 8: Silentium Post Clamores (1930-1946)
Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks
Appendix: 'Imperialismo Pagano': English Translation
Bibliography
Index
Christian Giudice received his PhD from the University of Gothenburg. His work focuses on the Italian esoteric milieu of the early twentieth century. His other interests include fin de siècle occultism in France, England and Italy, Guénonian Traditionalism, the history of Thelema, and the relationship between occultism and cinema.
With this outstanding volume, Christian Giudice is offering us the
first academic monograph ever dedicated to Arturo Reghini and his
milieu. Erudite, wide-ranging and yet eminently readable, the
present study illuminates the cultural and political roots of
fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century Occultism in Italy, up to
and including the Fascist era. By retracing Reghini's intricate
intellectual and Masonic journeys, Giudice gives us a penetrating
analysis of the entanglements of occult spirituality, (neo)pagan
Roman Traditionalism and an anti-modern political stance typical of
the then cultural avant-garde, in an Italy grappling with the
seemingly unstoppable onslaught of modernity, nationalism, and
war.
*Jean-Pierre Brach, Directeur d'études, École Pratique des Hautes
Études, Sorbonne*
Occult Imperium covers the life and work of Arturo Reghini, Italian
esotericist, translator of René Guénon, and author of the original
"Pagan Imperialism" of 1914, a work that inspired the title, and
much of the content, of Julius Evola's Pagan Imperialism of 1928.
Occult Imperium is recommended for all who have an interest in the
history of Traditionalism, Guénon, and Evola, and also because it
introduces us to the little-known Italian esoteric milieu from
before the First World War to the Fascist period, a milieu that
both echoes and differs from the better-known French esoteric
milieu of the same period.
*Mark Sedgwick, author of Against the Modern World: Traditionalism
and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century*
With this outstanding volume, Christian Giudice is offering us the
first academic monograph ever dedicated to Arturo Reghini and his
milieu. Erudite, wide-ranging and yet eminently readable, the
present study illuminates the cultural and political roots of
fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century Occultism in Italy, up to
and including the Fascist era. By retracing Reghini's intricate
intellectual and Masonic journeys, Giudice gives us a penetrating
analysis of the entanglements of occult spirituality, (neo)pagan
Roman Traditionalism and an anti-modern political stance typical of
the then cultural avant-garde, in an Italy grappling with the
seemingly unstoppable onslaught of modernity, nationalism, and
war
*Jean-Pierre Brach, Directeur d'études, École Pratique des Hautes
Études, Sorbonne*
Occult Imperium covers the life and work of Arturo Reghini, Italian
esotericist, translator of René Guénon, and author of the original
"Pagan Imperialism" of 1914, a work that inspired the title, and
much of the content, of Julius Evola's Pagan Imperialism of 1928.
Occult Imperium is recommended for all who have an interest in the
history of Traditionalism, Guénon, and Evola, and also because it
introduces us to the little-known Italian esoteric milieu from
before the First World War to the Fascist period, a milieu that
both echoes and differs from the better-known French esoteric
milieu of the same period
*Mark Sedgwick, author of Against the Modern World: Traditionalism
and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century.*
Based on a PhD thesis, this book is the first English monograph
about the Italian esotericist Arturo Reghini (1878-1946). Through a
detailed analysis of the social, cultural, and political context of
Italy at the turn of the twentieth century, Giudice demonstrates
the specificity of the ideals that informed the Schola Italica
(Italic School), the neo-Pythagorean circle led by Reghini and his
master Amedeon Armentano (1886-1966).
*Lukas K. Pokorny, University of Vienna*
Giudice's book is highly recommended for those interested in
Reghini, Italian occultism, and its ambiguous relationship with the
Fascist regime.
*Davide Marino, Religious Studies Review*
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