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Heidegger walks his path

2,760 words

Translator anonymous

In an earlier essay I pointed out the importance of clearing up the points in which a connection between the doctrines of the traditional East and certain very advanced intellectual trends of the West emerges. I then said that in many cases a serious and not amateurish knowledge of the former might well serve to complete the latter, liberating them from their aspect as opinions of a purely individual speculative nature, and also from everything affected by an atmosphere of crisis, such indeed as is that of our own modern Western civilization. Read more …

Published: June 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, dharma, Friedrich Nietzsche, hinduism, Julius Evola, Karl Barth, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, svadharma, Søren Kierkegaard, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

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Zen & the West

Julius Evola

Crow Screen, Japan, 17th century, Seattle Art Museum

3,639 words

Translator anonymous, ed. by Greg Johnson

Zen may be regarded as the last discovery of Western spiritualistic circles in sympathy with Oriental wisdom. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, C. G. Jung, D. T. Suzuki, Dadaism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, psychoanalysis, reprints, surrealism, Taoism, Traditionalism, Zen | Comments closed

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The Right to One’s Own Life in East & West

Julius Evola

Peter Paul Rubens, “The Death of Seneca,” c. 1615, Museo del Prado, Madrid

3,577 words

Translation anonymous, ed. Greg Johnson

In these short notes I shall not attempt to deal with the question of the right to life in general, but with the right to one’s own life, which corresponds to the ancient formula of jus vitae necisque; it is the right to accept human existence or to put an end to it voluntarily. I intend to compare certain characteristic points of view which have been formulated in this connection in the East and in the West. However, the problem will not be considered from a social point of view, but rather from an interior spiritual one, whence it appears in the shape of a problem of responsibility only to our own selves. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julius Evola, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, reprints, Stoicism, suicide | Comments closed

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Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

Jonathan Bowden

1,340 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following is excerpted from Jonathan Bowden’s Skin, a book he wrote in the early 1990s. The text has been lightly edited, mainly for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

In Samuel Beckett’s work . . . , which has become emblematic of the modern condition, Read more …

Published: March 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arnold Geulincx, Arthur Schopenhauer, book excerpts, drama, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, minimalism, nihilism, North American New Right, philosophy, René Descartes, reprints, Samuel Beckett | Comments closed

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Le primordial et l’eternel :
La Tradition dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger et de Julius Evola

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger

8,727 words

L’opposé de la tradition, dit l’historien Dominique Venner, n’est pas la modernité, une notion illusoire, mais le nihilisme [1]. D’après Nietzsche, qui développa le concept, le nihilisme vient avec la mort des dieux et « la répudiation radicale de [toute] valeur, sens et désirabilité » [2]. Read more …

Published: April 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heracleitus, in French, in translation, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, on Evola, on Heidegger, originals, Parmenides, Rene Guénon, tradition, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Podcast no. 3
Interview with Andy Nowicki

Andy Nowicki

7,325 words

Editor’s Note:

Due to technical problems with the recording, we have decided it best to release only the transcript of our interview with Andy Nowicki.

Mike Polignano: Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. We’re joined here today by one of our authors, Andy Nowicki. Read more …

Published: February 1, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Andy Nowicki, Catholicism, Christianity, Fight Club, Flannery O'Connor, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Greg Johnson, interviews, literature, Mike Polignano, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, The Columbine Pilgrim, Under the Nihil, Walker Percy | Comments closed

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The Existentialist Case for Conservatism

Brett Stevens

Thomas Hart Benton, "The Music Lesson," 1943

829 words

Usually, as if there were anything usual about this time other than that it has happened before and will again anywhere a civilization gets ready to die, you don’t think of existentialism as conservative.