Tag Archives: Dominique Venner

956 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

At first, everyone thought that the draft law on homosexual marriage was one of those booby-traps (in crude terms, asshole traps) by which politicians entertain the gallery, unable to act on real issues. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged family, feminism, gay adoption, gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage, North American New Right, originals, translations | Comments closed

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Christmas:
Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

495 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. Read more …

Published: December 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, ethics, holidays, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | Comments closed

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El Guerrero y la Ciudad

Dominique Venner

742 words

English version here

En 1814, al final de las Guerras Napoleónicas, Benjamin Constant escribió con alivio: “Hemos llegado a la era del comercio, la era que debe necesariamente reemplazar a la de la guerra, tal como la era de la guerra tuvo que necesariamente preceder.” ¡Iluso Benjamin! Asumió demasiado amplia la idea del progreso indefinido apoyando el advenimiento de la paz entre hombres y naciones.

Published: November 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Homer, in Spanish, in translation, North American New Right, originals, the military, war, warrior ethics, warriors | Comments closed

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Does Identity Depend on Sovereignty?

Dominique Venner

Roland (right) receives the sword, Durandal, from the hands of Charlemagne (left)

1,084 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Author’s Note:

I reproduce here in full a seminal article that I published in Le Figaro on February 1, 1999, under the title: “Sovereignty is not Identity.” This article was part of the debate provoked by the Amsterdam Treaty and discussions about the future EU. Read more …

Published: September 7, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, France, identity, language, North American New Right, originals, Quebec, sovereignty, translations | 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, Collin Cleary, 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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Letter to My Friends on Identity & Sovereignty

Dominique Venner

Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer, circa 1512

997 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

When you belong to a nation associated with St. Louis, Philip the Fair, Richelieu, Louis XIV, or Napoleon, a country which in the late 17th century, was called the “great nation” (the most populated and most dangerous), it is cruel to recount the history of repeated setbacks: the aftermath of Waterloo, 1870, 1940, and again in 1962, the ignominious end of French rule in Algeria. A certain pride necessarily suffers. Read more …

Published: July 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, European unity, France, originals, sovereignty, translations | Comments closed

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Europa und Europäertum

Dominique Venner

The Fall of Constantinople

966 words

Aus dem Französischen ins Englische übersetzt von Greg Johnson, deutsche Übersetzung aus dem Englischen von Deep Roots

English original here

Was ist Europa? Was ist ein Europäer?

Published: February 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged European identity, in German, in translation, North American New Right, reprints | Comments closed

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Europa & Europeidade

Dominique Venner

The Fall of Constantinople

925 words

English original here

O que é Europa? O que é um europeu?

Do ponto de vista geopolítico e histórico, a Europa é definida por suas fronteiras. O centro, o núcleo europeu, é formado de nações que, ainda que muitas vezes em conflito, tem experimentado uma história comum desde a Alta Idade Média. Read more …

Published: January 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged European identity, in Portuguese, in translation, North American New Right | Comments closed

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The Shock of History

Michael O'Meara

2,411 words

Corrected October 30, 2011

A propos:
Dominique Venner.
Le choc de l’Histoire. Religion, mémoire, identité.
Versailles: Via Romana, 2011.

“The future belongs to those with the longest memory.” — Nietzsche

Conservative thinking, Karl Mannheim notes, is essentially historical thinking Read more …

Published: November 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, European identity, history, Le choc de l’Histoire, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, on Venner, philosophy of history, reprints, white dispossession | Comments closed

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The Unforeseen, the Chinese, & the Favorable Moment

Dominique Venner

The Trojan Horse: Detail of the neck relief on an early 7th century BCE earthenware amphora from Mykonos

743 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Current events sometimes offer striking examples of the unforeseen. Last spring, we were all shocked by images of one of the great and powerful looking despondent, his wrists shackled, having suddenly fallen from his perch of impunity. By means of the media, spectators felt that they were following much more than a single news event. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl von Clausewitz, China, Homer, North American New Right, Odysseus, strategy, Sun Tzu, The Odyssey, translations, Ulysses, war | Comments closed

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Макіавеллі як європеєць

Dominique Venner

695 words

English original here

Навіть його власне ім’я повернулось проти нього. І дійсно, навряд чи хто втішатиметься епітетом «макіавеліанський». В уяві одразу вимальовуються тіні підступної та зрадливої жорстокості. Та все ж до написання свого найвідомішого та найскандальнішого твору – «Державець» Макіавеллі привела турбота про його батьківщину – Італію. Read more …

Published: October 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, in translation, in Ukrainian, Italy, nationalism, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, political philosophy, religion, the Christian Question | Comments closed

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The Yogi & the Commissar

Dominique Venner

722 words

Translated by M. P.

Arthur Koestler, the author of Le zéro et l’infini (in English, Darkness at Noon), once played an important role in the Spanish Civil War as an agent of the Comintern. Through his writings, he set the tone of an anti-Francoist propaganda that has endured. Later, his deceptions made him an acute critic of Stalinism. Read more …

Published: September 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, Arthur Koestler, articles, Communism, Eastern religion, European New Right, French New Right, Homer, manliness, North American New Right, originals, religion, spirituality, the gentleman, The Yogi and the Commissar, translations | Comments closed

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Can History Address the Problems of the Future?

Dominique Venner

876 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Men have always felt the need to peer into the future. The Greeks asked the Pythia of Delphi. The obscurity of the oracle’s pronouncements lent them to multiple interpretations. Read more …

Published: August 9, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, history, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of history, translations | Comments closed

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François Mitterrand & the French Mystery

Dominique Venner

924 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

In the center of all the questions raised by the sinuous and contradictory path of François Mitterrand is the famous photograph of the interview granted to a young unknown, the future socialist president of the Republic, by Marshall Philippe Pétain in Vichy, on October 15th, 1942. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collaborationism, fascism, France, François Mitterrand, North American New Right, originals, Philippe Pétain, translations | Comments closed

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Machiavelli the European

Dominique Venner

Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito: "I prefer my fatherland to my own soul."

838 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Even his own name has been turned against him. Indeed it is hardly flattering to be described as “Machiavellian.” One immediately envisions a hint of cunning and treacherous violence. And yet what led Machiavelli to write his most famous and scandalous work, The Prince, was concern for his fatherland, Italy. Read more …

Published: April 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Italy, nationalism, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, political philosophy, religion, the Christian Question, translations | Comments closed

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This Weekend’s Featured Author
Dominique Venner

Greg Johnson

73 words

Dominique Venner is one of my favorite contemporary writers. Counter-Currents/North American New Right has now published more than 40 pieces by Venner in translation. Click here for a list.

Published: March 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Featured Authors, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | Comments closed

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An Internal Clash of Civilizations

Dominique Venner

686 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

History does not move like the course of a river, but like the invisible movement of a tide filled with eddies. We see the eddies, not the tide. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, European identity, immigration, North American New Right, originals, Samuel Huntington, the Muslim question, translations, white dispossession, women | Comments closed

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The Warrior & the City

Dominique Venner

717 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations: Portuguese, Spanish

In 1814, at the end of the Napoleonic wars, Benjamin Constant wrote with relief: “We have arrived at the age of commerce, the age that must necessarily replace that of war, as the age of war necessarily had to precede it.” Naïve Benjamin! He took up the very widespread idea of indefinite progress supporting the advent of peace between men and nations.

Published: January 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benjamin Constant, commercial society, Homer, North American New Right, originals, the military, translations, war, warrior ethics, warriors | Comments closed

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Violence & “Soft Commerce,” Part 3

Dominique Venner

657 words

Part 3 of 3

Translated by Greg Johnson

The System is Nourished by Fake Opposition

Published: November 29, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adam Smith, articles, capitalism, free trade, Friedrich List, globalization, North American New Right, originals, protectionism, translations, Venner soft commerce | Comments closed

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Violence & “Soft Commerce,” Part 2

Dominique Venner

714 words

Part 2 of 3

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Internal Logic of “Soft Commerce”

Now that “soft commerce” has been globalized since the end of the 20th century, one must grant that it has the advantage of a plasticity and a capacity for survival enjoyed by few regimes up to the present.

Published: November 23, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, Communism, globalization, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, translations, Venner soft commerce | Comments closed

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