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Part 5 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011 Read more …

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, capitalism, democracy, G. W. F. Hegel, history, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Thomas Hobbes, thumos | Comments closed

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 4
The Construction of the Western Self

Collin Cleary

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3
Hegel & the Struggle for Recognition

Collin Cleary

G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831

4,986 words

Part 3 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition

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Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 2

Collin Cleary

3,686 words

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

5. What about the East?

The revisionists’ favorite non-Western people seems to be the Chinese. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, China, cultural relativism, Faustian man, G. W. F. Hegel, history, Marvin Harris, Marxism, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, political correctness, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, thumos, William McNeill | Comments closed

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Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

Collin Cleary

4,940 words

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

1. Introduction: A Book for Our Times

Every few years I discover a book that is truly great. One that forces me to think in new ways about things familiar, teaches me things I never knew, and inspires in me scores of new ideas and insights. Such a book is Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Read more …

Published: April 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, book reviews, cultural relativism, history, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Richardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization | Comments closed

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Available Again in Hardcover!
Summoning the Gods:
Essays on Paganism in a God-Forsaken World

Collin Cleary

Edited with an Introduction by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2011
220 pages

French description here

Standard hardcover: List price, $35; your price, $30

Published: February 28, 2013 | Posted in news item | Also tagged news item, Summoning the Gods | Comments closed

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The Ninefold, Part 3

Collin Cleary

3,062 words

Part 3 of 3

What about Midgardhr? Our world lies at the intersection of the four pairs of worlds.[1] It is the place where the opposites meet and blend, and where they are, in a sense, overcome. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, cosmology, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, poetry, religion | Comments closed

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The Ninefold, Part 2

Collin Cleary

4,216 word

Part 2 of 3

4. Interpretation of the Germanic Cosmology

According to Edred Thorsson, the Germanic cosmology is dyadic: Read more …

Published: November 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, cosmology, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, poetry, religion | Comments closed

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The Ninefold, Part 1

Collin Cleary

4,546 words

Part 1 of 3

1. Introduction

This is the second of two essays on the Germanic cosmology or worldview. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, cosmology, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, poetry, religion | Comments closed

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The Fourfold

Collin Cleary

5,690 words

1. Introduction

This is the first of two essays dealing with the Germanic cosmology. Read more …

Published: October 19, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, Martin Heidegger, neo-paganism, neopaganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, phenomenology, philosophy, poetry, religion, the fourfold, the world | Comments closed

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Ásatrú & the Political

Collin Cleary

7,521 words

This essay is dedicated to George Hocking.

1. Introduction

Is there a connection between Ásatrú and White Nationalism? Read more …

Published: October 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, neopaganism, North American New Right, Odinism, originals, paganism, philosophy, religion, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Somos Livres?

Collin Cleary

Norns by J. L. Lund (1777-1867)

4,683 words

English original here

1. O Problema

Nós temos “livre-arbítrio”? Certamente isso me parece que eu livremente escolho o que eu faço em vida, com respeito a coisas tanto maiores quanto menores. Minha decisão de graduar no colégio, por exemplo, certamente parece ter sido feito livremente, sem nenhuma coerção de outros. Read more …

Published: August 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, determinism, free will, Immanuel Kant, in Portuguese, in translation, J. G. Fichte, Jean-Paul Sartre, philosophy, reprints, Tantrism, the left hand path | Comments closed

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Paganism Without Swords?

Mark Dyal

Detail from Jacques-Louis David’s “Oath of the Horatii,” 1784

3,600 words

“When swords ran every which way like red-stained snakes, our fathers warmed to life; the sun of all peace seemed limp and lackluster to them, but the long peace caused them shame. How they sighed, our fathers, when they saw gleaming bright, dried up swords on the wall! Like them, they thirsted for war. For a sword wants to drink blood and sparkles with desire.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Read more …

Published: July 24, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, ancient Rome, articles, craft, Friedrich Nietzsche, knives, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, paganism, swords, Titus Livy, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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The Gifts of Ódhinn & his Brothers

Collin Cleary

Odin Stone, Gotland, Sweden

9,592 words

1. Overview of the Germanic Anthropogeny

What is human nature? This is arguably the most important philosophical question, because philosophy itself is uniquely human, and philosophical “problems” only present themselves to human beings. All the great philosophers have either explicit or implicit answers to this question. Read more …

Published: July 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, Odin, originals, philosophy, religion | Comments closed

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The Homeric Gods

Mark Dyal

4,074 words

Athena

Walter F. Otto
The Homeric Gods: The Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion
Translated by Moses Hadas
North Stratford, N.H.: Ayer Company Publishers, 2001

“My goal is to create total enmity between our current ‘culture’ and Antiquity. Whoever wants to serve the former must hate the latter.”—Friedrich Nietzsche[1]

Published: July 10, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ancient Greece, Apollo, articles, Athena, book reviews, Dominique Venner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Homer, Mark Dyal, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, religion, The Homeric Gods, Walter F. Otto | Comments closed

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Heidegger: Une introduction pour les antimodernistes, Partie 4

Collin Cleary

3,158 words

English original here

10. Heidegger sur le national-socialisme

Published: July 6, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, modernity, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Comments closed

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Heidegger:
An Introduction for Anti-Modernists, Part 4

Collin Cleary

2,906 words

Part 4 of 4

French translation here

10. Heidegger on National Socialism

Published: June 7, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-globalization, anti-modernism, anti-technology, articles, Cleary Heidegger, globalization, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, modernity, National Socialism, North American New Right, on Heidegger, originals, philosophy, technology | Comments closed

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Heidegger:
An Introduction for Anti-Modernists, Part 3

Collin Cleary

2,707 words

Part 3 of 4

8. The Question of the Essence of Being

Heidegger concludes his etymological investigations by saying that they have clearly shown that the originary sense of Being has been occluded. For us, Being has become an empty word. Read more …

Published: June 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, Cleary Heidegger, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, modernity, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Comments closed

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Heidegger:
An Introduction for Anti-Modernists, Part 2

Collin Cleary

2,563 words

Part 2 of 4

6. Modernity and the Oblivion of Being

Heidegger describes this “oblivion of being” as “the spiritual fate of the West” and offers the following striking description of our present predicament: