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The veneration of Zeus Meilichios, relief, Berlin

46:58 / 415 words

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This is the first of two parts of a lecture on the Platonic dialogue Euthyphro, which deals with the nature of piety. As with the Theages, I interpret the Euthyphro as in part a reply to Aristophanes’ Clouds. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristophanes, Counter-Currents Radio, Euthyphro, Greg Johnson, originals, piety, Plato, podcasts, Socrates | Comments closed

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 1

Mark Dyal

Left: Gilles Deleuze, 1925–1995; right: Félix Guattari, 1930–1992

2,847 words

“A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.” – Gilles Deleuze[1]

It Begins with Nietzsche

Published: March 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, the Counter-Enlightenment | Comments closed

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Othmar Spann:
A Catholic Radical Traditionalist

Lucian Tudor

Othmar Spann, October 1, 1878–July 8, 1950

4,964 words

Othmar Spann was an Austrian philosopher who was a key influence on German conservative and traditionalist thought in the period after World War I, and he is thus considered a representative of the intellectual movement known as the “Conservative Revolution.” Spann was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Vienna, where he taught not only scientific social and economic theories, but also influenced many students with the presentation of his worldview in his lectures. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Austria, Catholicism, Christianity, collectivism, conservative revolution, Edgar Julius Jung, elitism, Eric Voegelin, individualism, Julius Evola, liberalism, Lucian Tudor, Ludwig Clauss, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Othmar Spann, philosophy of culture, populism, race, sociology, the Conservative Revolution, Third Way economics | Comments closed

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The Beginning & the End of History

Greg Johnson

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, G. W. F. Hegel, honor, John Locke, liberalism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, the bourgeoisie, Thomas Hobbes, thumos, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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Postmodernism, Hedonism, & Death

Greg Johnson

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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, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, hedonism, morality, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism | Comments closed

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Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

Jonathan Bowden

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, nihilism, North American New Right, René Descartes, reprints, Samuel Beckett | Comments closed

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The Concept of Initiation

Julius Evola

Great Eleusis Frieze, Eleusis Museum, Greece, late 5th c. BCE

9,609 words

Translated by Bruno Cariou

It is not easy, today, to give an exact idea of what is meant by Initiation and to define the figure of the ‘Initiate’. The main difficulty lies in the necessity of referring to a vision of the world and man, and to structures, which belong essentially to traditional civilisations, distant from the present one, not only from the modern mentality and culture, but also, to a large extent, from the religion which has come to predominate in the West.

Published: March 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, mysticism, North American New Right, religion, Rene Guénon, reprints, the occult, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Plato’s Theages

Greg Johnson

54:34 / 342 words

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Published: March 6, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristophanes, Clouds, Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson, Plato, podcasts, Socrates, Theages | Comments closed

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“A General Outline of the Whole”
Lovecraft as Heideggerian Event

James J. O'Meara

5,053 words

Graham Harman
Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2012

A winter storm in NYC is less the Currier and Ives experience of upstate and more like several days of cold slush, more suggestive—and we’ll see that suggestiveness will be a very key term—of Dostoyevsky than Dickens. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Edmund Wilson, fascism, Graham Harman, H. P. Lovecraft, James J. O'Meara, language, literature, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, racism, Slavoj Žižek | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part 3

Greg Johnson

Aristophanes

36:31 / 374 words

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This is the third of three podcasts on Aristophanes’ Clouds.

Published: February 27, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristophanes, Clouds, comedy, drama, Greg Johnson, podcasts, presocratics, Socrates, sophists | Comments closed

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Equality:
A Justification of Privilege, Oppression, & Inhumanity

Alex Kurtagić

The Equalizer

1,539 words

It is a cliché in our Left-leaning liberal society that we must all remain vigilant against any ideology that rejects equality as a morally desirable aim, because, should that ideology achieve political power, we would soon find ourselves back in the slippery slope that begins with a justification of racism and ends with the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Published: February 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, egalitarianism, equality, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Guillaume Faye o Nietzschovi

Guillaume Faye

1,876 words

English version here

Jak je pro vás Nietzsche důležitý?

Četba Nietzscheho byla výchozím bodem všech hodnot a myšlenek, které jsem později rozvinul. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guillaume Faye, in Czech, in translation, interviews, North American New Right, reprints, transhumanism | Comments closed

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Igualdad:
el camino a una vida carente de significado

Alex Kurtagić

1,107 words

English original here

En un libro que escribió hace unos veinte años, Jonathan Bowden mencionó que el significado se origina en la diferencia, o desigualdad. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, egalitarianism, in Spanish, in translation, inequality, North American New Right, originals, values | Comments closed

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Hans Freyer:
The Quest for Collective Meaning

Lucian Tudor

Hans Freyer, 1887–1969

4,043 words

Hans Freyer was an influential German sociologist who lived during the early half of the 20th century and is associated not only with his role in the development of sociology in German academia but also with the “Far Right.” Freyer was part of the intellectual trend known in Germany during the 1920s and 30s as the Conservative Revolution, and had also worked in universities under the Third Reich government for much of its reign, although it should be clear that Freyer was never an “orthodox” National Socialist.[1] Read more …

Published: February 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, Hans Freyer, Lucian Tudor, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, sociology | Comments closed

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Equality:
The Way to a Meaningless Life

Alex Kurtagić

1,017 words

Spanish translation here

In a book he wrote some twenty years ago, Jonathan Bowden said that meaning originates in difference, or inequality. Read more …

Published: February 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, egalitarianism, inequality, North American New Right, originals, values | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio
The Trial of Socrates:
Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part 2

Greg Johnson

45:43 / 463 words

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This is the second of three podcasts on Aristophanes’ Clouds.

Published: February 20, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aristophanes, Clouds, comedy, drama, Greg Johnson, podcasts, presocratics, Socrates, sophists | Comments closed

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Bowden on Bowden
You Can Never Be Too Right Wing!

Jonathan Bowden

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, nihilism, North American New Right, reprints | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio
The Trial of Socrates:
Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part 1

Greg Johnson

Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus

54:53 / 472 words

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This is the first of three podcasts on Aristophanes’ Clouds. This lecture opens with a discussion of the Sophist Antiphon.

Published: February 13, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Antiphon, Aristophanes, Clouds, comedy, drama, Greg Johnson, podcasts, presocratics, Socrates, sophists | Comments closed

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New E-Book Release!
The Lost Philosopher:
The Best of Anthony M. Ludovici

Anthony M. Ludovici

Anthony M. Ludovici
The Lost Philosopher: The Best of Anthony M. Ludovici
Ed. John V. Day
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2013

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Published: February 7, 2013 | Posted in art, Counter-Currents title, news item, philosophy, politics, race and ethnic studies, religion | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Anthony M. Ludovici, art, biological sex differences, conservatism, education, eugenics, Friedrich Nietzsche, liberalism, Ludovici CC book, National Socialism, news item, politics, religion, sexuality, the Jewish question, The Lost Philosophy | Comments closed

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The Trial of Socrates:
The Presocratic Background to Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part 2

Greg Johnson

48:29 / 435 words

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Topics discussed in this second and final installment on the philosophical background of Aristophanes’ Clouds: Read more …

Published: February 6, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Anaxagoras, Aristophanes, atheism, Counter-Currents Radio, Cynics, Diogenes, Diogenes of Apollonia, Empedocles, Greg Johnson, myth, Plato, podcasts, presocratics, pythagoreanism, religion, science, Socrates, sophists, Xenophanes | Comments closed

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