Tag Archives: modernity

Video of the Day
NXSchell, “Nietzsche”

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Published: March 19, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right, video of the day | Also tagged Friedrich Nietzsche, North American New Right, NXSchell, on Nietzsche, philosophy, video of the day, videos | Comments closed

Desafios Pós-modernos:
Entre Fausto & Narciso

Robert Steuckers

5,503 words

Tradução: para o inglês por Greg Johnson
[Para o português pela Equipe Yrminsul]

Parte 1

Connaître les dieux

Collin Cleary

7,634 words

1. Une fausse connaissance

Il y a aujourd’hui ceux qui souhaitent faire revenir l’humanité (ou une portion de l’humanité) à une foi plus ancienne, préchrétienne. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, in French, in translation, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, religion | Comments closed

Paganisme sans dieux :
Alain de Benoist et Comment peut-on être païen ?

Collin Cleary

7,186 words

1. Introduction

Le livre d’Alain de Benoist Comment peut-on être païen ?[1], comme son titre le suggère, est un appel pour un retour au paganisme. Beaucoup plus exactement, c’est un appel pour un nouveau paganisme. « Paganisme » est un terme inventé par les chrétiens pour désigner les religions qu’ils souhaitaient supplanter. Le « néo-paganisme » est la tentative pour revenir à ces religions préchrétiennes indigènes. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged about Benoist, Alain de Benoist, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Comment peut-on être païen ?, Friedrich Nietzsche, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, neo-paganism, North American New Right, On Being a Pagan, originals, paganism, Taoism | Comments closed

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 Edouard Rix, Gilles Lipovetsky, Giorgio Locchi, hypermodernity, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Maffesoli, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of history, postmodernity, translations | Comments closed

Summoning the Gods:
Essays on Paganism in a God-Forsaken World

Collin Cleary

Edited with an Introduction by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2011
220 pages

French description here

Hardcover limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies: $35

Paperback edition: $18

Amazon Kindle E-Book: $5.99

Published: June 3, 2011 | Posted in Counter-Currents title, news item, philosophy, religion | Also tagged Cleary book, Collin Cleary, Counter-Currents title, neo-paganism, paganism, philosophy, religion, Summoning the Gods, theology | Comments closed

Snöpingar

2,612 words

English original here

Jef Costello skriver om manlighet, avmaskulinisering och ideal. Texten publicerades ursprungligen på Counter Currents och är översatt av Ulf Larsen. Read more …

Published: April 30, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, emasculation, feminism, in Swedish, in translation, Jef Costello, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thymos | Comments closed

Ernst Jünger:
The Figure of The Worker Between the Gods & the Titans, Part 2

Alain de Benoist

Ernst Jünger and his brother Friedrich Georg Jünger

1,569 words

Part 2 of 8

Translated by Greg Johnson

Portuguese translation here

“Losing the War to Win the Nation”

During this time Jünger had a number of literary and philosophical influences. Read more …

Published: April 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, conservatism, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Georg Jünger, Friedrich Nietzsche, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Oswald Spengler, technology, the figure of the worker, the Weimar Republic, translations, World War One | Comments closed

Geldings

2,457 words

Swedish translation here

A few Sundays ago I was spending the latter part of my evening in my favorite bar. My bar doesn’t play any loud music and the bartender shushes people if they get too boisterous. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, emasculation, feminism, Jef Costello, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos | Comments closed

The Art of Manliness

1,804 words

Brett and Kate McKay
The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man
Cincinnati: How Books, 2009

It’s hard not to like this book. However, it’s really the idea of the book that I like, rather than the book itself. In fact, I almost hesitate to write this review (which will not be wholly positive) because I think the authors have their hearts in the right place, and because I like their website http://artofmanliness.com/

Published: March 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Brett and Kate McKay, emasculation, feminism, homosexuality, Jef Costello, manliness, North American New Right, originals, The Art of Manliness | Comments closed

I Am All Right (A Cry for Help)

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, G. W. F. Hegel, Human Biodiversity, Jef Costello, madness, manliness, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of history, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Trevor Lynch

3,747 words

Similar things happen in the United States too: an alienated, bookish radical right-winger takes up weight-lifting and martial arts, creates a private militia, dreams of overthrowing the government, then dies in a spectacular, suicidal, and apparently pointless confrontation with the state. In the United States, however, such people are easily dismissed as “kooks” and “losers.” Read more …

Published: January 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, commercial society, Friedrich Nietzsche, Japan, literature, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Paul Schrader, Traditionalism, transvaluation, Trevor Lynch, warrior ethics, weaponized Traditionalism, Yukio Mishima | Comments closed

D. H. Lawrence on America, Part 2

Salvador Dalí, "Allegory of an American Christmas," 1934

2,403 words

Part 2 of 2

When a people loses a sense of blood-relatedness, what basis is there for community? American community is not based on blood ties, shared history, shared religion, or shared culture: it is based on ideology. He who professes the American creed is an American—he who does not is an outcast.

Published: January 19, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, alienation, America, American conformism, articles, capitalism, commercial society, consumerism, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

D. H. Lawrence on America, Part 1

José Clemente Orozco, "The Gods of the Modern World"

1,841 words

Part 1 of 2

I have contributed several essays to Counter-Currents dealing with D. H. Lawrence’s critique of modernity. Those essays might lead the reader to believe that Lawrence treats modernity as a universal ideology or worldview that could be found anywhere.

Published: January 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, negative liberty, North American New Right, originals, positive liberty | Comments closed

Another review of . . .
Guillaume Faye’s Archeofuturism

Michael Walker

3,280 words

Click here for more discussions of Archeofuturism

Click here for writings by Guillaume Faye, including an excerpt from Archeofuturism

Guillaume Faye
Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age
Arktos Media Ltd., 2010

D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love:
Anti-Modernism in Literature, Part 4

2,470 words

Part 4 of 4. Click here for all four parts.

Gudrun Brangwen, the Modern Woman

Gerald Crich is only one half of Lawrence’s portrait of the “modern individual.” The other half is Gudrun Brangwen. Of course, Birkin and Ursula are modern individuals, though in a different sense. The latter couple are both seeking some fulfilling way to live in, or in spite of, the modern world. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropocentrism, anti-modernism, articles, book reviews, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, ecology, Ernst Junger, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hawthorne-Women in Love, literature, Martin Heidegger, misanthropy, nihilism, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, philosophy, progress., technology, vitalism, Women in Love | Comments closed

D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love:
Anti-Modernism in Literature, Part 3

2,541 words

Part 3 of 4. Click here for all four parts.

Interestingly, perhaps the clearest parallels to Gerald Crich’s philosophy of life, and Lawrence’s treatment of it, are two thinkers Lawrence knew nothing about when he wrote Women in Love: Oswald Spengler and Ernst Jünger, both of whom were strongly influenced by Nietzsche.

Spengler: Faustian Man and Technology

D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Modernity,
Part 2

2,881 words

Part 2 of 2

2. Industrialism, the Midlands, and Lawrence’s “Socialism”

Lawrence encountered the effects of modernity—especially the Industrial Revolution—directly in his native Midlands. He saw how if affected people, generally for the worse. Read more …

Published: January 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, Friedrich Nietzsche, ideology, industrialization, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, socialism, technology, transvaluation, vitalism | Comments closed

D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Modernity,
Part 1