Tag Archives: nihilism

Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

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, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, minimalism, North American New Right, philosophy, René Descartes, reprints, Samuel Beckett | Comments closed

Nietzsche pro dnešní dny

893 words

English original here

Zdá se, že byl v Itálii vzkříšen zájem o Friedricha Nietzscheho. Jedním zjevným znamením tohoto je, že nakladatelství Adelphi v Miláně vydává kritické překlady všech jeho děl; druhým, že se téměř současně objevily dvě knihy, „Nietzsche“ od Adriana Romualdia, Read more …

Published: February 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, North American New Right, reprints, Robert Reininger, the superman | Comments closed

Bowden on Bowden
You Can Never Be Too Right Wing!

506 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following excerpt is from Jonathan Bowden’s Frenzy, a book he finished writing before April 3, 1994. The text has been mildly edited for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

As far as my own political views are concerned, I do not believe you can be too Right wing. Read more …

Published: February 18, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints | Comments closed

Úvahy o estetické a kulturní postavě dandyho, část 3

Robert Steuckers

1,270 words

English version here

Čandalistické dekadentní figury

Existenciální krize, jež započala zhruba v polovině 18. století, vyústila v nihilismus, který Friedrich Nietzsche s odsudkem charakterizoval jako “vyčerpání života” a “znehodnocení všech hodnot”, projevující se vzrušeným neklidem a neschopností si užívat volného času. Právě tento neklid pak urychlil proces vyčerpání. Read more …

Published: February 4, 2013 | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged amoralism, dandyism, decadence, drugs, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Czech, in translation, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Robert Steuckers, Victor Segalen | Comments closed

Cultural Communism & the Inegalitarian Basis of All Genuine Art

2,122 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The Following is an excerpt from Blood, written between April and May 1992. It is part of a much longer discussion about art, where Bowden explores one of his favorite themes: the art of the radical Left versus the art of the radical Right. Read more …

Published: January 30, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, art criticism, Communism, degenerate art, Guy Debord, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, modern art, North American New Right, Raoul Vaneighem, reprints, Situationism, Stewart Home | Comments closed

Nietzsche para Hoje

1,041 words

English version here

Na Itália parece que um interesse em Friedrich Nietzsche foi revivido. Um sinal óbvio disso é que Adelphi de Milão está publicando uma tradução crítica de todas as suas obras; em segundo lugar, há o aparecimento quase simultâneo de dois livros, Read more …

Published: January 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Portuguese, in translation, Julius Evola, North American New Right, reprints, Robert Reininger, the superman | Comments closed

Nietzsche for Today

1,061 words

Translated by Cologero Salvo

Translations: Czech, Portuguese

In Italy it seems that an interest in Friedrich Nietzsche has been revived. One obvious sign of it is that Adelphi of Milan is publishing critical translation of all his works; secondly, there is the almost simultaneous appearance of two books, Read more …

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, North American New Right, reprints, Robert Reininger, the superman, translations | Comments closed

The Communist Cell at Cambridge University, Part 2

2,388 words

Guy Burgess

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Part 2 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Vermin. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony Blunt, Cambridge University, Communism, David Haden-Guest, Donald Maclean, E. J. Hobsbawn, England, Enoch Powell, espionage, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guy Burgess, homosexuality, individualism, Jonathan Bowden, Kim Philby, Marxism, Rajani Palme Dutt, The Apostles, the USSR | Comments closed

The Communist Cell at Cambridge University, Part 1

Spy Kim Philby honored on Soviet postage stamp

3,017 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Part 1 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Vermin. The book was written sometime between 1990 and 1991. The text has only been lightly edited for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

Published: January 23, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony Blunt, articles, Cambridge University, Communism, David Haden-Guest, Donald Maclean, E. J. Hobsbawn, England, Enoch Powell, espionage, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guy Burgess, homosexuality, individualism, Jonathan Bowden, Kim Philby, Marxism, North American New Right, Rajani Palme Dutt, reprints, The Apostles, the USSR | Comments closed

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, existentialism, Fight Club, Flannery O'Connor, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Greg Johnson, interviews, literature, Mike Polignano, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, The Columbine Pilgrim, Under the Nihil, Walker Percy | Comments closed

Under the Nihil

Andy Nowicki

Andy Nowicki
Under the Nihil
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2011
108 pages

Read an excerpt here

Hardcover: $25

Paperback: $16

E-book: $5.99

Published: December 12, 2011 | Posted in Counter-Currents title, fiction, religion | Also tagged Andy Nowicki, Counter-Currents title, drugs, news item, nowicki-book, religion, terrorism, Under the Nihil | Comments closed

Into the Nihil

Andy Nowicki

4,212 words

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Andy Nowicki’s new novella, Under the Nihil, which Counter-Currents is publishing later this month.

When I opened my eyes the next morning and saw you standing before me, Mr. X, I didn’t at all wonder who you were; I didn’t care. Read more …

Published: December 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andy Nowicki, book excerpts, fiction, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

Nihilism & the Meaning of Life in Nietzsche

2,929 words

Translated by Bruno Cariou

Editor’s Note:

The following text is Evola’s Preface to his translation of Robert Reininger’s Friedrich Nietzsches Kampf um den Sinn des Lebens [Nietzsche's Struggle for the Meaning of Life] (1922) as Nietzsche e il senso della vita [Nietzsche and the Meaning of Life] (Rome: Giovanni Volpe, 1971).

Published: February 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, North American New Right, on Nietzsche, reprints, Robert Reininger, Traditionalism, transhumanism, translations | Comments closed

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

Derek Hawthorne

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, modernity, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, philosophy, progress., technology, vitalism, Women in Love | Comments closed

Against Nihilism:
Julius Evola’s “Traditionalist” Critique of Modernity

Thomas F. Bertonneau

Julius Evola

5,326 words

With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898–1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the limitations – the contradictions and inconsistencies–in Nietzsche’s thinking.

Published: December 29, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Hermann Keyserling, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola, modernity, myth, North American New Right, on Evola, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Rene Guénon, reprints, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Traditionalism | Comments closed

Reflections on the Aesthetic &
Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part III

Robert Steuckers

1,332 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 3 of 3. Part I: here. Part II: here.

Czech translation here

Chandala Figures of Decadence

The existential crisis that began around the middle of the 18th century led to nihilism, quite judiciously defined by Nietzsche as an “exhaustion of life,” Read more …

Published: August 13, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged amoralism, dandyism, decadence, drugs, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frithjof Schuon, Julius Evola, manliness, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, religion, Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism, translations, Victor Segalen | Comments closed

From Dusk to Dawn

Guillaume Faye

3,176 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the first unabridged publication of the following translation with introduction by Michael O’Meara.

Translator’s Note:

The following talk was given in Moscow on May 17, 2005 and recently posted, in French, on the Russian site Athenaeum. Read more …

Published: July 27, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American imperialism, archaeofuturism, articles, emasculation, European identity, European New Right, Guillaume Faye, Islam, Islamic colonization of Europe, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, racial conflict, translations, white ethnomasochism, xenophilia | Comments closed

Jünger, Heidegger, & Nihilism

Alain de Benoist

3,840 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Ernst Jünger and Martin Heidegger engaged in a dialogue on nihilism in two texts published five years apart in the 1950s on the occasions of their respective sixtieth birthdays.[1] The study and comparison of these texts is particularly interesting because they allow us to appreciate what, on this fundamental subject, separates two authors who are frequently compared to each other and who maintained a powerful intellectual relationship for several decades. What follows is a brief overview.

Published: July 5, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, modernity, on Heidegger, on Jünger, on Nietzsche, originals, philosophy, technology, translations | Comments closed