Corbin has sometimes been accused of coming from the same right-wing tradition as Julius Evola. Although he did have some elitist tendencies, and his political sensibilities were entirely undeveloped and naive, the whole tenor and intention of Corbin's ecumenical and inclusive work stands in stark opposition to the fundamentalism and ethnic supremacism of the "fascist Traditionalists" who used religion as justification for their vile political intentions.
By JASON HOROWITZ FEB. 10, 2017 NYTimes
But for all the examination of those remarks, a passing reference by Mr. Bannon to an esoteric Italian philosopher has gone little noticed, except perhaps by scholars and followers of the deeply
taboo, Nazi-affiliated thinker, Julius Evola. "The fact that Bannon even knows Evola is significant," said Mark Sedgwick, a leading scholar of Traditionalists at Aarhus University in Denmark.... READ MORE
Sedgwick has a relevant post on Corbin etc HERE
I am italian and in my youth, I read nearly all of Evola's opus. I am convinced that his so called "Tradition" is actually steeped in nihilism (and in the idea that "man", as a demiurge god, has the right to do as he please or like. To give order to chaos, in his opinion). Of course Guenon's vison was very different but at the end I believe that both of them are unlikely companions for Corbin (as you explain very well in your "the world turned inside out"). Maybe I'm wrong, but the "transmitted knowledge" of the french sheik is too fixed in a sclerotic way. For example his interpretation of Daoism strikes me as untrue. Do you know, or do you think there are any, religious groups that are working in a "din" in consonance with Corbin's vision? I mean...are the insights of Henry Corbin totally personal (and if so, to be meditated alone)or they can be found in some actual religious way?. Real-life Ismailism, with the super-rich Aga Khan as Imam, doesn't appear to me the same thing of corbin's ismaili philosophers.
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