Tag Archives: hermeneutics

Martin Heidegger

2,441 words

Part 2 of 2

3. The Hermeneutic Circle in Heidegger’s Being and Time

Heidegger’s purpose in Being and Time[1] is to explore the question of the sense (Sinn) of Being (Sein). By “Being” Heidegger means the meaningful presence of beings to a knower. By the “sense of Being,” Heidegger refers to the meaningful presence of meaning itself. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dialectic, Edmund Husserl, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy | 3 Responses

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Greg Johnson on Heidegger at Majority Rights Radio

Greg Johnson

Heidegger modeling his Hobbit hat

108 words

I talk to Guessed Worker and Daniel Sienkiewicz at Majority Rights Radio about Heidegger and the politics of identity here.

Topics include: modern politics and the abolition of limits, the necessity of a return to limits, the classical notion of nature, the notion of weighty historical contingency, Heidegger and the Conservative Revolution, Heidegger in relation to National Socialism and the New Right, Heidegger and authenticity, race and historical identity, Heidegger and Darwinism, and science in relation to philosophy and common sense. Read more …

Published: February 9, 2015 | Posted in news item | Also tagged Aristotle, biological race denial, biological race differences, Daniel Sienkiewicz, existentialism, Greg Johnson, Guessed Worker, Majority Rights Radio, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, news item, Plato, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Julius Evola:
The World’s Most Right-Wing Thinker

Jonathan Bowden

10,311 words

Julius Evola, La Genitrice

Editor’s Note:

This text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture on Evola delivered to the 27th meeting of the New Right in London on June 5, 2010. As usual, I have deleted a few false starts and introduced punctuation and paragraph breaks for maximum clarity. You can listen to it at YouTube here. Three passages are marked unintelligible. If you can make out the words, please post a comment below or contact me at editor@counter-currents.com. Read more …

Published: October 17, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, deconstruction, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, race, sports, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Stewart Home:
Communism, Nihilism, Neoism, & Decadence

Jonathan Bowden

11,050 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V.S. of one of Jonathan Bowden’s most entertaining lectures, which was delivered to the 25th New Right meeting in London on February 13, 2010. Although Stewart Home is the principal subject, Bowden romps through a wide field of politically correct theories, ultra-Left sects, and decadent forms of modern art.

Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Part 2

Greg Johnson

5,017 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Republic. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness and corrected a couple of small mistakes.

Plato writes in his seventh letter that he never set forth his own philosophy in any of his writings. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfarabi, Allan Bloom, Aristotle, articles, esotericism, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Republic, thumos | Comments closed

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Paul Gottfried’s Leo Strauss & the Conservative Movement in America

Greg Johnson

3,906 words

Paul Edward Gottfried
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Paul Gottfried’s admirable book on Leo Strauss is an unusual and welcome critique from the Right.

Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was a German-born Jewish political theorist who moved to the United States in 1937. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, conservatism, Greg Johnson, historicism, John Locke, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, Paul Gottfried, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio
An Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Part 2

Greg Johnson

37:04 / 166 words

Part 2 of 2

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Strauss on Persecution & the Art of Writing

Greg Johnson

8,150 words

Leo Strauss, 1899–1973

Author’s Note:

I wrote the following essay in the 1990s while in graduate school. It was not written for a class, but merely to clarify my thinking on how to read philosophical texts in anticipation of writing my doctoral dissertation. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Comments closed

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Evola on Aurobindo’s Secret of the Veda

Julius Evola

Aurobindo Ghosh, 1872–1950

778 words

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghosh)
Secret of the Veda
Pondicherry, India: Aurobindo Ashram, 1995

From 1944 to 1946 the periodical Arya—issued in Pondicherry in a limited number of copies and impossible to find anywhere today—published a series of essays by Sri Aurobindo on the secret of the Vedas. Read more …