Hans Thomas Hakl
Hans Thomas Hakl is an Austrian publisher, essayist and translator. He has also used the signatures H. T. Hakl, H.T.H., or the pseudonym H. T. Hansen.
Biography
, he has founded an international trading company named HHS Handels AG, based first in Zürich and then in Schwerzenbach, which had 14 daughter companies in 13 different countries, dealing in particular with the Far East, as well as the publishing house Ansata-Verlag, specialised in studies on esotericism, based first in Schwarzenburg and then in Interlaken. In 1996, he created the esoteric academic journal Gnostika, of which he remains co-editor to this date.Concurrently with his publishing activities, he has contributed material on matters related to esotericism to several international dictionaries and journals, such as Politica Hermetica, where he regularly publishes book reviews. He has published a book on the « Eranos » series of colloquia initiated by Carl Gustav Jung and attended by names such as Mircea Eliade and several specialists of esoteric and religious studies. The English translation by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke of his book Unknown Sources: National Socialism and the Occult was published in 2000.
He is the author of German translations of the works of Julius Evola, of whom he is an internationally recognized specialist.
Hakl is the founder of the Octagon library, one of the most important private European libraries specialised in the history of religion and esotericism.
Publications
Works
- Studi Evoliani 1998, Fondazione Julius Evola, 1999
- Дивногорск Х.Т.Хансен: ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ УСТРЕМЛЕНИЯ ЮЛИУСА ЭВОЛЫ
- Der verborgene Geist von Eranos, Bretten, Scienta Nova, Neue Wissenschaft, 2001.
- Julius Evola et la « révolution conservatrice » allemande, Deux Etendards, 2002.
- Eranos, An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century, Sheffield, Equinox, 2013, 440 p.
- Octagon, Die Suche nach Volkommenheit, Gaggenau, Scientia Nova, 2015, 481 p.
- Octagon, The Quest for Wholeness,, Gaggenau, Scientia Nova, 2016, 450 p.
- Octagon, La ricerca della totalità,, Gaggenau, Scientia Nova, 2017, 546 p.
- Octagon, La recherche de perfection,, Gaggenau, Scientia Nova, 2018, 433 p.
Book chapters and articles
- "Nationalsozialismus und Okkultismus", in: Gnostika 1/January, Gnostika 2/April, Gnostika 3/July, Sinzheim. 1997. Also in: Aries 21, Paris, 1998. Italian translation: "Nazionalsocialismo ed Occultismo", in: Arthos 1 and 2, Pontremoli, Centro Studi Evoliani, 1997. Shortened version in: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Die okkulten Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus, Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz 1997, p. 194–217, English translation: National Socialism and the Occult, Edmonds,WA, Holmes Publishing Group, 2000
- "Giuseppe Tucci entre études orientales, ésoterisme et Fascisme ", Politica Hermetica Nr. 18, Lausanne, L’Age d’Homme, 2004, p. 119–136.
- "La questione dei rapporti fra Julius Evola e Aleister Crowley", in: Arthos 13, Pontremoli, Centro Studi Evoliani, 2006, p. 269–289.
- "Maria de Naglowska and the Confrérie de la Flèche d’Or". In: Politica Hermetica, Nr. 20, Lausanne, L’Age d’Homme 2006, p. 113–123.
- "Julius Evola et l'histoire comparée des religions", in : Jean-Pierre Brach et Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire, Études d'histoire de l'ésotérisme, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2007, p. 83-96,
- "Breve storia della rivista 'Antaios' curata da Mircea Eliade ed Ernst Jünger", in: Francesco Zambon, Cenacoli, circoli e gruppi letterari, artistici, spirituali, Milano, Medusa, 2007.
- "Adonismo", in: Alessandro Grossato, Forme e correnti dell'esoterismo occidentale, Venezia, Mursia, 2008.
- " Introduction to: Julius Evola, Maschera e volto dello spiritualismo contemporaneo, Roma, Ed. Mediterranee, 2008.
- "The Theory and Practice of Sexual Magic, Exemplified by Four Magical Groups in the Early Twentieth Century", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jeffrey J. Kripal, Hidden Intercourse. Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism, Leiden, Brill, 2008, p. 445-478.
- "Julius Evola and the UR Group", in: Aries, 12, Leiden, Brill, 2012, p. 53-90.
- "The Magical Order of the Fraternitas Saturni". In: Occultism in a global perspective. Edited by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic, Durham 2013, p. 37-56,.
- "Some additional remarks on Julius Evola and Aleister Crowley", in : Marco Pasi, Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics, Durham, Acumen, 2014, p. 141-162,
- "Es war einmal ein junger Mann...Geschichte einer Bibliothek und persönliche Gedanken eines Sammlers", in: Octagon, Scientia Nova, Gaggenau, 2015, Vol. 1, pp. 13–25,
- "Julius Evola and Tradition", in: Mark Sedwick, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019, pp. 54–69.
Articles in dictionaries and encyclopaedias
- "Karlfried Graf Dürckheim", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 323–325.
- "Giulio Evola", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 345–350.
- "Fraternitas Saturni", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 379–382.
- "Max Heindel", in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Vol. I. Brill, Leiden 2005, pp. 462–464.
- "Sexuality: Sexual Rites in Europe ", in: Lindsay Jones : Encyclopedia of Religion. 2a ed., Macmillan, New York 2005, pp. 8247–8254.
- "Julius Evola" In: Lindsay Jones : Encyclopedia of Religion. 2a ed., Macmillan, New York 2005, pp. 2904–2907.
Translations
- Julius Evola, Revolte gegen die moderne Welt, Ansata, Interlaken 1982.
- Julius Evola, "Gruppe von Ur, Magie als Wissenschaft vom Ich". Band I. Ansata, Interlaken 1985.. 2. Auflage..
- Julius Evola, Die hermetische Tradition. Ansata, Interlaken 1989.. 4. Auflage..
- Julius Evola, Gruppe von Ur, Schritte zur Initiation. Magie als Wissenschaft vom Ich. Band II: Theorie und Praxis des höheren Bewusstseins. Ansata, Berne-Munich-Vienne, 1997...