Tag Archives: Edouard Rix

1,967 words

Trans. anonymous, revised by Greg Johnson

“I hate this book. I hate it with all my heart. It gave me glory, that paltry thing called fame, but it is also the source of all my miseries. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Giorgio Freda, Italy, Julius Evola, North American New Right, reprints, terrorism, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Жан Тірар – Макіавеллі Об’єднаної Європи

Edouard Rix

Jean Thiriart, 1922–1992

1,730 words

English original here

Ревний читач Гоббса, Макіавеллі та Паретто, бельгієць Жан Тіріар (1922–1992), засновник пан’європейської організації «Молода Європа» («Jeune Europe») був теоретиком Великої Європи від Ґолвея до Владивостока. Read more …

Published: September 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Eurasia, European unity, Eurosiberia, geopolitics, in translation, in Ukrainian, Jean Thiriart, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, revolution, white activism, Young Europe | Comments closed

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Protestantism, Capitalism, & Americanism

Edouard Rix

Martin Luther

1,050 words

Translated by M. P.

Many authors distinguish between, on the one hand Catholicism, which is supposed to be a negative Christianity incarnated by Rome and an anti-Germanic instrument, and, on the other hand, Protestantism, which is supposed to be a positive Christianity emancipated from the Roman papacy and accepting traditional Germanic values. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Americanism, capitalism, Christianity, individualism, Martin Luther, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, religion, the United States, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Geopolitics of Leviathan, Part 2

Edouard Rix

967 words

Part 2 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

Karl Haushofer’s Kontinentalblock Read more …

Published: August 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred T. Mahan, England, geopolitics, Halford John Mackinder, Karl Haushofer, land powers, Nicholas John Spykman, Russia, sea powers, the United States, translations, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Comments closed

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Geopolitics of Leviathan, Part 1

Edouard Rix

William Blake, "Behemoth and Leviathan"

1,525 words

Part 1 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

“Nur Meer und Erde haben hier Gewicht.”
(Only sea and land matter here.)
—Goethe

This article is less concerned with geopolitics than with thalassopolitics, Read more …

Published: August 10, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred T. Mahan, Carl Schmitt, England, Friedrich Ratzel, geopolitics, Halford John Mackinder, Julien Freund, land powers, on Schmitt, Russia, sea powers, the United States, translations | Comments closed

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Tradice & Revoluce

Edouard Rix

497 words

Based on English translation here

Za co vlastně bojujeme? Každý politický voják si tuto otázku jednou bude nucen položit. Ačkoli to možná někomu může připadnout protikladné, obvykle odvětíme, že bojujeme ve jménu Tradice a Revoluce. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, North American New Right, on Evola, on Guenon, originals, Rene Guénon, revolution, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Modernity, Postmodernity, Hypermodernity

Edouard Rix

1,324 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

In 1917, in Die Krisis der europäischen Kultur (The Crisis of European Culture), Rudolf Pannwitz described the Nietzschean Superman as “postmodern.” The concept then underwent a long eclipse before re-appearing in philosophical debate in 1979. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Gilles Lipovetsky, Giorgio Locchi, hypermodernity, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Maffesoli, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history, postmodernity, translations | Comments closed

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Jean Thiriart: Machiavelli jednotné Evropy

Edouard Rix

Jean Thiriart, 1922–1992

1,563 words

English original here

Vášnivý čtenář Hobbese, Machiavelliho a Pareta, Belgičan Jean Thiriart (1922-1992), zakladatel panevropského hnutí Jeune Europe (Mladá Evropa) byl zastáncem teorie Velké Evropy od Galway až po Vladivostok. Read more …

Published: May 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Eurasia, European unity, Eurosiberia, geopolitics, in Czech, in translation, Jean Thiriart, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, revolution, white activism, Young Europe | Comments closed

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This Saturday’s Featured Author
Edouard Rix

Greg Johnson

54 words

I owe Robert Steuckers many debts of thanks, one of them for introducing me to the work of Edouard Rix, surely one of the most concise and compelling of European New Right authors, four of whose works I have translated for Counter-Currents/North American New Right. Click here for a complete list.

Enjoy!

Published: April 9, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Counter-Currents, Featured Authors, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | Comments closed

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Plato & Indo-European Tripartition

Edouard Rix

Plato, detail of Raphael's "The School of Athens," 1509–1510

1,125 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

In 1938, Georges Dumézil discovered, the existence of a veritable Indo-European “ideology,” a specific mental structure manifesting a common conception of the world. He writes:

Remembering René Guénon

Edouard Rix

René Guénon, 1886–1951

1,202 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

This essay and the one that follows are presented in commemoration of René Guénon’s birth on November 15, 1886.

On January 7th, 1951, the Frenchman René Guénon, one of the principal representatives of Traditional thought in the 20thcentury, died in Cairo. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Julius Evola, North American New Right, on Guenon, originals, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Tradition & Revolution

Edouard Rix

603 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation of this translation here

What are we fighting for? Every political soldier has to raise this question. Contradictory as it might seem, we are inclined to answer that we fight for Tradition and Revolution. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, North American New Right, on Evola, on Guenon, originals, Rene Guénon, revolution, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Jean Thiriart, the Machiavelli of United Europe

Edouard Rix

Jean Thiriart, 1922–1992

2,165 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations: Czech, Ukrainian

A diligent reader of Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Pareto, the Belgian Jean Thiriart (1922–1992), founder of the pan-European Jeune Europe (Young Europe), is the theorist of a Greater Europe from Galway to Vladivostok.