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Tradução: para o inglês por Greg Johnson
[Para o português pela Equipe Yrminsul]
Parte 1
Nos termos de Oswald Spengler, nossa cultura Europeia é o produto de uma “pseudomorfose, isto é, do acréscimo de mentalidade estrangeira sobre nossa nativa, original e inata mentalidade. Read more …
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905–1980
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The Babbitt with the Sartrean paradox
In 1945, the tone of ideological debate was set by the victorious ideologies. We could choose American liberalism (the ideology of Mr. Babbitt) or Marxism, an allegedly de-bourgeoisfied version of the metanarrative. Read more …
"Organisation Todt" by Kettler, circa 1933–1945
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The Encysted Metanarrative . . .
The wise old Faust in FAUST (1926), directed by F. W. Murnau
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In Oswald Spengler’s terms, our European culture is the product of a “pseudomorphosis,” i.e., of the grafting of an alien mentality upon our indigenous, original, and innate mentality. Read more …
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Part 2 of 2, Part 1 here
The War Chariot
Spengler reserved his sympathy for the culture-amoeba of Turan, whose bearers were characterized by the love of adventure, implacable will power, a taste for violence, and freedom from vain sentimentality. Read more …
Nicholas Roerich, "The Destruction of Atlantis," 1928–29
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Troy Southgate: When and why did you decide to become involved in politics?
Robert Steuckers: I was never actually involved in politics, as I was never a member of a political party. Read more …
Julius Evola
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“I translated from German, at the request of the publisher Longanesi . . . Oswald Spengler’s vast and celebrated work The Decline of the West. That gave me the opportunity to specify, in an introduction, the meaning and the limits of this work which, in its time, had been world-famous.” These words begin a series of critical paragraphs on Spengler in Julius Evola’s The Path of Cinnabar (p. 177).
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Part 3 of 3. Part I: here. Part II: here.
Chandala Figures of Decadence
The existential crisis that began around the middle of the 18th century led to nihilism, quite judiciously defined by Nietzsche as an “exhaustion of life,” as a “devaluation of the highest values,” which is often expressed by a frantic agitation and the inability to really enjoy leisure, an agitation that accelerates the process of exhaustion.
Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867
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Part 2 of 3. Part I: here.
The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire
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Before getting to the quick of the subject, I would like to make three preliminary remarks:
I hesitated to accept your invitation to speak on the figure of the dandy, for this sort of issue is not my main subject of interest.
Medal of the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky, 1942
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Throughout its history, Russia has been estranged from European dynamics. Its nationalism and national ideology are marked by a double game of attraction and revulsion towards Europe in particular and the West in general.
