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Brooks Adams’ The Law of Civilization & Decay

Anthony M. Ludovici

1,132 words

Brooks Adams’ work on The Law of Civilization and Decay[1] is a reprint of the original American edition published in 1896. It was the first of a series of similar treatises and started the line followed, among others, by Spengler. Briefly its thesis is this — “As the attack in war masters the defence, and the combative instinct becomes unnecessary to the preservation of life, the economic supersedes the martial mind, being superior in bread-winning. Read more …

Published: October 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Antony Ludovici, book reviews, Brooks Adams, decadence, economics, miscegenation, North American New Right, race-mixing, reprints, The Law of Civilization and Decay | Comments closed

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Two Reflections

Francis Parker Yockey

Lorenzo de Medici, by Michelangelo

1,239 words

Edited by Kerry Bolton

Editor’s Preface:

The first of these reflections was written in June of 1950. It shows that Yockey had already adopted a “neutralist” position for Europe vis-à-vis America and Russia during the “Cold War.” Read more …

Published: September 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, European unity, Francis Parker Yockey, Germany, hilosophy of history, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, occupied Germany, originals, Oswald Spengler, the Cold War, the United States, the USSR | Comments closed

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Selections from Francis Parker Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey

3,781 words

Edited by Kerry Bolton

Francis Parker Yockey was born on September 18, 1917. In commemoration of his birthday, I have extracted the following passages from a variety of typewritten manuscripts that, as far as I know, have been hitherto published only in my 1998 collection of Yockey essays and newspaper cuttings.[1] Read more …

Published: September 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Francis Parker Yockey, geopolitics, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture | Comments closed

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Can History Address the Problems of the Future?

Dominique Venner

876 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Men have always felt the need to peer into the future. The Greeks asked the Pythia of Delphi. The obscurity of the oracle’s pronouncements lent them to multiple interpretations. Read more …

Published: August 9, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, history, North American New Right, originals, translations | Comments closed

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History & Biology

10,077 words

American Opinion, December 1963 (part 4 of 4 of History and the Historians)

History is the record of what men do. Scientific discoveries and technological applications of them are often events of historical importance, but do not affect our understanding of the historical process since they shed no light on the behavior of men in civilized societies. Read more …

Published: July 7, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biological race differences, biology, dysgenics, egalitarianism, eugenics, globalism, history, North American New Right, reprints, Revilo Oliver, socialism | Comments closed

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Modernity, Postmodernity, Hypermodernity

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, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, postmodernity, translations | Comments closed

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Марс и Гефест: возвращение истории

"Ares Ludovisi," Римская копия греческого оригинала, выполненного Скопием (Palazzo Altemps, Museo Romano Nazionale)

1,831 words

English version here

Позвольте мне поведать вам «археофутуристическую» притчу, основанную на вечном символе дерева, которое я буду сравнивать с ракетой. Но давайте вначале обозрим мрачный лик наступающего века. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged European identity, European New Right, European renewal, Eurosiberia, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guillaume Faye, in Russian, in translation, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right | Comments closed

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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, modernity, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed

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Preparing the Next Rebirth:
Mikulas Kolya’s Men-Art-War

F. Roger Devlin

2,847 words

Mikulas Kolya
Men-Art-War
Lincoln, Nebr.: iUniverse, 2006

Men-Art-War is a self-published collection of ten philosophical short stories-stories, that is, which appear intended to illustrate the author’s Weltanschauung. Read more …

Published: December 30, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged art, book reviews, creativity, cultural rebirth, decadence, F. Roger Devlin, Men-Art-War, Mikulas Kolya, North American New Right, reprints, war | Comments closed

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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, nihilism, North American New Right, on Evola, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, Rene Guénon, reprints, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Postmodern Challenges:
Between Faust & Narcissus, Part 1

Robert Steuckers

The wise old Faust in FAUST (1926), directed by F. W. Murnau

1,760 words

Part 1 of 3

Translated by Greg Johnson

In Oswald Spengler’s terms, our European culture is the product of a “pseudomorphosis,” i.e., of the grafting of an alien mentality upon our indigenous, original, and innate mentality. Read more …

Published: December 13, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Faustian man, modernity, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, Postmodern Challenges, postmodernism, postmodernity, rationality, the Frankfurt School, translations | Comments closed

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The Overman High Culture:
Future of the West

3,313 words

Translations: French, Portuguese

Can the West and its peoples be saved? And what will this take–particularly if we are concerned with a long-term solution rather than a last ditch “stop gap?” Can a new High Culture of the West arise to secure the existence of the peoples of the West for an extended time frame? What characteristics should such a new culture have?

Published: October 21, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, atheism, Christianity, cultural renewal, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, high culture, neo-paganism, on Nietzsche, on Spengler, on Yockey, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, reprints, Ted Sallis, transhumanism | Comments closed

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Lawrence R. Brown’s The Might of the West

3,611 words

Lawrence R. Brown’s The Might of the West is one of the fundamental books of our century.

Published: October 21, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Classical civilization, Lawrence R. Brown, Medieval civilization, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, reprints, Revilo Oliver, The Might of the West | Comments closed

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Atlantis, Kush, & Turan:
Prehistoric Matrices of Ancient Civilizations in the Posthumous Work of Spengler, Part 2

Robert Steuckers

1,180 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 2, Part 1 here

The War Chariot

Spengler reserved his sympathy for the culture-amoeba of Turan, whose bearers were characterized by the love of adventure, implacable will power, a taste for violence, and freedom from vain sentimentality. Read more …

Published: September 26, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, geopolitics, North American New Right, on Spengler, originals, Oswald Spengler, prehistory, Robert Steuckers, translations | Comments closed

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On the Secret of Degeneration

Julius Evola, 1898–1974

2,093 words

Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, or collapse of a higher preceding world. Read more …

Published: September 24, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, decadence, degeneration, hierarchy, Julius Evola, North American New Right, philosophy of culture, race, religion, reprints, Traditionalism, translations, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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Evola & Spengler

Robert Steuckers

Julius Evola

1,040 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

“I translated from German, at the request of the publisher Longanesi . . . Oswald Spengler’s vast and celebrated work The Decline of the West. That gave me the opportunity to specify, in an introduction, the meaning and the limits of this work which, in its time, had been world-famous.” Read more …

Published: September 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Julius Evola, Ludwig Klages, North American New Right, on Evola, on Spengler, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, progress., Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Spengler: Criticism & Tribute

Revilo Oliver in 1938

2,856 words

Editor’s Note:

Oswald Spengler’s Man and Technics and Revilo Oliver’s America’s Decline: The Education of a Conservative and The Origins of Christianity are available for purchase on this website.

Conceived before the First World War is Oswald Spengler’s magisterial work, Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Munich, 1918). Read more …

Published: August 14, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Decline of the West, Man and Technics, on Spengler, optimism and pessimism, Oswald Spengler, race, Revilo Oliver, The Year of Decision | Comments closed

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Pessimism?

Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler, 1880–1936

6,158 words

My book (The Decline of the West, Vol. I.) has met with widespread misunderstandings. In a sense, that is almost an inevitable concomitant of any novel approach which arrives at new conclusions. Such a reaction is all the more to be expected when the conclusions reached, or even the perspectives and methodology that led to them, present a serious challenge to the prevailing mood of an age. Read more …

Published: July 25, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right, Uncategorized | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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Spengler:
An Introduction to His Life & Ideas

4,116 words

Oswald Spengler was born in Blankenburg (Harz) in central Germany in 1880, the eldest of four children, and the only boy. His mother’s side of the family was quite artistically bent. His father, who had originally been a mining technician and came from a long line of mineworkers, was an official in the German postal bureaucracy, and he provided his family with a simple but comfortable middle class home.

Published: July 24, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right, Uncategorized | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Keith Stimely, North American New Right, on Spengler, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, reprints | Comments closed

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Nietzsche & Spengler:
Preface to Thinkers of the Right

1,900 words

Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler loom large over the horizon of twentieth-century European thought. Nietzsche was influential in the thinking of Spengler, while either one or both had a major impact on the thinking of most of the writers we deal with herein.

Published: July 22, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, commercial society, cultural renewal, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, on Nietzsche, on Spengler, Oswald Spengler, reprints, Thinkers of the Right | Comments closed

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