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New from Counter-Currents!
Western Civilization Bites Back

Jonathan Bowden

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Jonathan Bowden
Western Civilization Bites Back
Ed. Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2014
228 pages

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Published: April 11, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents title, news item, philosophy | Also tagged Bill Hopkins, Bowden book, Counter-Currents title, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, New Left, news item, philosophy, the holocaust, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

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Podcast no. 18
Tragedy, Horror, & the Transcendent

Jonathan Bowden

John Maler Collier, “Clytemnestra,” 1882

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The following text is Michael Polignano’s transcription of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “Western Civilization: A Bullet Through Steel,” Read more …

Published: June 11, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Counter-Currents Radio, Edward Bond, horror, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jonathan Bowden, King Lear, Marxism, North American New Right, podcasts, Steven Berkoff, theater, tragedy, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

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Aeschylus’ Agamemnon:
The Multiple Uses of Greek Tragedy

Jonathan Bowden

John Maler Collier (1850–1934), "Clytemnestra," 1882

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Greek tragedy is all but forgotten in mainstream culture, but there is a very good reason for looking at it again with fresh eyes. The reasons for this are manifold, but they basically have to do with anti-materialism and the culture of compression. To put it bluntly, reading Greek tragedy can give literally anyone a crash course in Western civilization which is short, pithy, and terribly apt.

Let’s take — for purposes of illustration — the first part of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, which concentrates on Agamemnon’s murder by his wife Clytemnestra. Read more …

Published: August 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Agamemnon, Greek Tragedy, Jonathan Bowden, original, the Oresteia | Comments closed

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