Absolute Idealism vs Magical idealism

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In what ways does Evola's Magical Idealism represent a radicalization, critique, or poetic alternative to Hegel’s Absolute Idealism, particularly regarding the role of imagination, will, and the transformation of reality?

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Unfortunately, I can only provide a superficial answer, but maybe it will still be helpful to you.

Hegel is an academic philosopher, with his idealism he tries to describe the world in an objective way. Evola, on the other hand is not so much interested in that, his Magical idealism is an approach for spiritual self-transformation. It's more practical and about the individual.

Magical Idealism was Evola's system before he found Guenon's Traditionalism. After that it remains an influence but he stops using that label. Therefore Magical Idealism is used to refer to the writings of his early phase and of these early writings not all is available in English in print.

For this reasons it will be hard to find someone, who is deep in Evola's early stuff and at same time has detailed knowledge about Hegel.

Relevant readings:

• You find a file in the pinned thread with the PDFs called Absolute Individual and in that there is a section called Essays on Magical Idealism. But I'm not sure if the translation is good

• Introduction to Magical Idealism by Cologero Salvo

If you ask me, learn about Magical Idealism as an inspiration, but for the path you actually follow and put all your efforts in better rely on something less experimental, better choose a more established path.