B'ela Hamvas and the reception of traditionalist ideas of R. Gu'enon and J. Evola in Hungary

The research examines the work of the Hungarian thinker of the twentieth century Béla Hamvas in the aspect of studying the reception of the ideas of integral traditionalism. The author characterizes the general context of the Hungarian philosopher’s acquaintance with the works of the founders of the traditionalist discourse R. Guénon and J. Evola, demonstrates the specifics of his mastering of basic traditionalist subjects. It is shown that Hamvas’s interest in the traditionalist way of thinking appears in the course of his work on the problems of the crisis after he studied the so-called “criseological literature”. Hamvas, following Guénon and Evola, sees the way out of the crisis state of Modernity in the need to restore a religious attitude to being, returning the sacred dimension to human life. The research also reveals the moments of difference between the ideas of Hamvas and the concept of Julius Evola, as well as his fundamental difference from the founders of traditionalist thinking in terms of worldview practices and political position.