Tag Archives: G. W. F. Hegel

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 5
The Decline & Rebirth of the West

4,071 words

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, Collin Cleary, democracy, history, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Thomas Hobbes, thumos | Comments closed

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

Clemency of Marcus Aurelius, detail, Capitoline Museum

3,381 words

Part 4 of 5

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

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

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

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

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, Collin Cleary, cultural relativism, Faustian man, 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

A Little Death:
Hegelian Reflections on Body Piercing & Tattoos

Antonio Canova’s “Amor and Psyche,” 1793, Louvre

887 words

It is safe to say that urban youth culture in the contemporary West is pretty much saturated with hedonism. Yet in the midst of all this hedonism, tattooing and body piercing are huge industries, and they hurt.

It is, moreover, shared pain, broadcast to and imposed upon all who see it. It is natural for human beings to feel sympathy for people in pain, or who show visible signs of having suffered pain. Perhaps this is a sign of morbid oversensitivity, but I believe I am not the only person who feels sympathy pains when I see tattoos and piercings, especially extensive ones. Read more …

Published: March 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, body piercing, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, tattoos | Comments closed

The Beginning & the End of History

1,493 words

The duel to the death over honor is a remarkable phenomenon. Animals duel over dominance, which insures their access to mates. But these duels result in death only by accident, because the whole process is governed by their survival instincts, and their “egos” do not prevent them from surrendering when the fight is hopeless. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, C. S. Lewis, capitalism, David Hume, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, honor, John Locke, liberalism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, the bourgeoisie, Thomas Hobbes, thumos, warrior ethics | Comments closed

Postmodernism, Hedonism, & Death

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Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” right panel, detail

1,152 words

“Postmodernism” is one of those academically fashionable weasel words like “paradigm” that have now seeped into middlebrow and even lowbrow discourse. Those of us who have fundamental and principled critiques of modernity quickly learned that postmodernism is not nearly postmodern enough. Read more …

Published: March 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, culture, death, Greg Johnson, hedonism, morality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism | Comments closed

Nacionalismo & Racialismo na Filosofia Alemã:
Fichte, Hegel & os Românticos

Derek Hawthorne

3,733 words

English original here

1 – Fichte e o Destino da Nação Alemã

J. G. Fichte (1762-1814), o primeiro dos grandes idealistas alemães pós-kantianos, é uma figura importante na ascensão do nacionalismo alemão – e tem sido muitas vezes acusado de ser um dos pais fundadores do Nacional-Socialismo.

Published: August 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Hawthorne, German Idealism, Germany, Immanuel Kant, in Portuguese, in translation, J. G. Fichte, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Martin Heidegger, nationalism, philosophy, race, reprints, Romanticism, the Counter-Enlightenment | Comments closed

Nationalism & Racialism in German Philosophy:
Fichte, Hegel, & the Romantics

Derek Hawthorne

Philipp Veit, “Germania,” 1848

4,354 words

Portuguese translation here

1. Fichte and the Destiny of the German Nation

J. G. Fichte (1762–1814), the first of the great post-Kantian German Idealists, is an important figure in the rise of German nationalism – and has often been accused of being one of the founding fathers of National Socialism.

Published: August 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Derek Hawthorne, German Idealism, Germany, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, nationalism, Novalis, originals, philosophy, race, Romanticism, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Jewish question | Comments closed

O Cosmoteísmo

John Carver

Ludwig Fahrenkrog (1867–1952), “Allvater,” 1906

3,114 words

English original here

Uma vez, no início dos anos 70, William Pierce (1933-2002) – fundador da organização nacionalista National Alliance – foi convidado a falar a uma escola particular em Maryland. Que ele foi convidado a falar para alguma escola é surpreendente. Que foi a Indian Friend’s School, operada por Quakers é realmente excepcional. Read more …

Published: August 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropic principle, articles, cosmotheism, destiny, in Portuguese, in translation, John Carver, philosophy, Pierce symposium, religion, reprints, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

Cosmotheism

John Carver

Ludwig Fahrenkrog (1867–1952), “Allvater,” 1906

3,220 words

Portuguese translation here

Sometime in the early 1970s, William Pierce (1933–2002) — founder of the white nationalist organization the National Alliance — was invited to speak at a private high school in Maryland. That he was invited to speak at any school is surprising. That it is was the Indian Spring Friends’ School, operated by Quakers is truly remarkable. Read more …

Published: July 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropic principle, articles, cosmotheism, destiny, John Carver, originals, philosophy, Pierce symposium, religion, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

Prussians & Englishmen, Part 2

Oswald Spengler

4,216 words

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

First installment here

In order to overcome man’s inborn lethargy, the Prussian socialist ethic maintains that the chief aim of life is not happiness. Read more …

Published: June 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, capitalism, collectivism, duty, English, freedom, Immanuel Kant, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism, Prussians, socialism, utilitarianism | Comments closed

Podcast no. 10
Interview with Jack Donovan

Jack Donovan

53 minutes/8,260 words

Published: April 1, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Aristotle, Counter-Currents Radio, emasculation, ethics, feminism, gangs, interviews, Jack Donovan, John Hagedorn, John Robb, manliness, modernity, morality, podcasts, post-collapse scenarios, resilient communities, the Männerbund, The Way of Men | Comments closed

“You Are the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World”
Fight Club as Holy Writ

Jef Costello

11,660 words

French translation here

1. I am Jack’s Most Devoted Space Monkey

I have hesitated to write an essay on Fight Club for some time, as it would mean breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Read more …

Published: January 9, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, philosophy, religion, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

Pulp Fiction, Part 2

Trevor Lynch

3,817 words

Part 2 of 2

Read Part 1 here

The Gold Watch

We first encounter boxer Butch Coolidge at the beginning of Part 3, “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife.” The setting is a tittie bar owned by Marsellus Wallace. Read more …

Published: July 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Friedrich Nietzsche, hedonism, honor, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, postmodernism, Pulp Fiction, Pulp Fiction review, Quentin Tarantino, warrior ethics | Comments closed

Pulp Fiction

Trevor Lynch

8,353 words

Parts 1 & 2

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies. I didn’t want to like it. I didn’t even want to see it. Everything I’d heard made me think it would be thoroughly nihilistic and quite unpleasant. But then someone at a party described Pulp Fiction as a movie about “greatness of soul at the end of history,” and that caught my attention, Read more …

Published: June 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Friedrich Nietzsche, hedonism, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, postmodernism, Pulp Fiction, Pulp Fiction review, Quentin Tarantino | Comments closed

Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

2,158 words

“Why can’t we all get along?”–Rodney King

Carl Schmitt’s short book The Concept of the Political (1932) is one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy.

The aim of The Concept of the Political is the defense of politics from utopian aspirations to abolish politics. Anti-political utopianism includes all forms of liberalism as well as international socialism, global capitalism, anarchism, and pacifism: in short, all social philosophies that aim at a universal order in which conflict is abolished.

Published: February 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Aristotle, articles, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, liberalism, North American New Right, on Schmitt, originals, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, The Concept of the Political, thumos, universalism, white nationalism | Comments closed

I Am All Right (A Cry for Help)

Jef Costello

2,145 words

I am all right. I tell myself this at the grocery store when, in the midst of an apparent manic episode I begin chatting inanely with the mixed-race store clerk in the designer frames. He is cordial, but it is clear that he thinks I am not quite right. But I am.

Sometimes I blurt things out on the subway. I might be having an imaginary argument with a co-worker, or with Barack Obama, or with someone I’ve just dreamed up. “Pigs!” I mutter. Read more …

Published: February 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, autonomy, egalitarianism, Human Biodiversity, Jef Costello, madness, manliness, modernity, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed