Tag Archives: G. W. F. Hegel

The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part II

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

“New capacities” under conditions of “relaxed selection”

Published: July 8, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, Axial Age, Council of European Canadians, evolution, North American New Right, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Robert N. Bellah, Western uniqueness | Comments closed

Reflections on the Supremacy of the West:
A Critique of Ricardo Duchesne & Niall Ferguson

Alexander Jacob

Niall Ferguson

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In 2011 there appeared two major scholarly works that attempted to investigate the sources of Western supremacy in the modern world, especially in view of the recent rise of China as a potential threat to this supremacy. These are the Puerto Rican-Canadian social historian Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization[1] and the British economic historian Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest.[2] Read more …

Published: April 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Jacob, Alexandre Kojève, articles, book reviews, Civilization: The West and the Rest, hinduism, Indo-European culture, Max Weber, Niall Ferguson, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, Romans, the Indo-Europeans, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Western uniqueness | Comments closed

A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 3

Gregoire Canlorbe

Plato’s allegory of the cave

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Grégoire Canlorbe: It is not uncommon to claim the self-assertive longing for “prestige,” “respect,” and “fame” is fully intelligible within the framework of the selfish-gene theory, Read more …

Published: April 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Council of European Canadians, Faustian man, Grégoire Canlorbe, Indo-European culture, Indo-Europeans, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, the Axial Age, Western uniqueness | Comments closed

A Conversation with Ricardo Duchesne, Part 2

Gregoire Canlorbe

An idol of the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis, a common deity in the Indo-European pantheons

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Grégoire Canlorbe: Western civilization, originating from the Indo-European heroic ethos, turned out to be both the most creative and Faustian civilization and the most war-ridden and war-dominated one. Islamic civilization has been equally militaristic and expansionist; yet it quickly became frozen and hostile towards innovation and individual genius, despite the fact that praising Muhammad’s heroic lifetime has permeated Islamic societies to this day. How do you explain this duality?

On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

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As the Chinese “silent invasion” of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada continues, you may want to learn something about the Western academics who lay the intellectual groundwork for this invasion. In a prior article, “The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians,” we met two influential scholars calling upon whites to abandon their “failed” attempts to formulate transcendental truths for the sake of the more “profound” contextual approach of Chinese philosophers with their demonstration that all thinking is “embedded” to a time and a place. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, apologists for multiculturalism, Aristotle, articles, China, Chinese mentality, Chinese philosophy, Confucianism, Confucius, Council of European Canadians, cultural relativism, East vs. West, embeddedness, Greek philosophy, Heiner Roetz, Immanuel Kant, Lawrence Kohlberg, Max Weber, Mencius, Mengzi, Mo Di, North American New Right, Plato, reason, reprints, Ricado Duchesne, self-consciousness, Taoism, the Axial Age, Thomas Hobbes, Western mentality, Western superiority, Western uniqueness, Xun Kuang, Xunzi | Comments closed

Fukuyama on Civic Nationalism

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In his new book Identity, Francis Fukuyama seeks to forestall the rise of white identity politics. Nevertheless, as I argue in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” Identity is a very useful book for White Nationalists because it concedes many of our most important premises. In “Fukuyama on Diversity,” I argue that Fukuyama admits that diversity is a problem and offers only very weak reasons to value it at all. Here I examine Fukuyama’s alternative to white identity politics, namely a conservative form of color-blind civic nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, book reviews, EU, European Union, Francis Fukuyama, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos, United States | Comments closed

Fukuyama on Diversity

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Francis Fukuyama’s latest book Identity was written to forestall the rise of Right-wing identity politics, but, as I argued in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” the book is actually very useful to White Nationalists because it concedes a number of our basic premises while offering weak reasons to resist our ultimate political conclusions. This is especially apparent in his discussion of diversity.

Published: January 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, book reviews, Francis Fukuyama, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos | Comments closed

Fukuyama on Identity Politics

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Francis Fukuyama
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
London: Profile Books, 2018[1]

Francis Fukuyama is the most eminent living neoconservative intellectual. I have admired and benefitted from his work since 1992, when he published his first book, The End of History and the Last Man. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, book reviews, Francis Fukuyama, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos | Comments closed

Alexandre Kojève & the End of History

Alexandre Kojève

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Author’s Note:

This is transcript by V. S. of a talk that I gave in Atlanta in 2000. As usual, I have eliminated some wordy constructions and some back-and-forth with the audience.

We live in a time when there’s a lot of talk about the ends of ages. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, articles, cyclical history, end of history, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 4

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Part 4 of 4

The Radicalizing Logic of Modern Individualism

With the formation of nation states in the modern era, as liberal institutions were emerging in the form of constitutional rule, freedom of religious expression, and representative bodies in which members of the bourgeoisie were included, Read more …

Published: June 8, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, collectivism, European identity, individualism, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | Comments closed

The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, the Indo-Europeans, and the Modern Hegelian Concept of Collective Freedom

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Part 1 of 4

Libertarian freedoms are not incompatible with a strong commitment to in-group white identity politics. On the contrary, Europeans can preserve their attachment to individual liberties only by living inside nations with a strong sense of collective ancestry in opposition to mass immigration. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agonism, articles, Carl Schmitt, collectivism, individualism, Indo-Europeans, manliness, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, thumos | Comments closed

One’s Nation as the Highest Truth:
The German Ethical Revolution, 1800–1945

Asklepios

Fichte addressing the German people on the importance of nationalism.

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“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live. . .”

–Deuteronomy 30:19

Published: April 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Asklepios, ethics, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich von Bernhardi, German Idealism, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, North American New Right, originals, the nation, war | Comments closed

Film Klub rváčů coby Písmo svaté

Jef Costello

9,556 slov

English original here

1. Jsem Jackova nejoddanější Vesmírná opice

Dlouho jsem se zdráhal psát o Klubu rváčů, jelikož bych tím porušil první dvě pravidla Klubu rváčů. Read more …

Published: March 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, emasculation, end of history, fascism, feminism, Fight Club, Friedrich Nietzsche, Helena Bonham Carter, homosexuality, in Czech, Jef Costello, manliness, movie reviews, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, the last man, the Männerbund, thumos, Tyler Durden | Comments closed

Ancestral Being, Part One

Collin Cleary

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Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

1. Introduction

This essay presents an “ontology of the individual.” The theory is new, though it has very old roots. “Ontology” is the branch of philosophy that studies being-as-such, or “being as being,” as Aristotle expressed it.[1] My argument is that the being of an individual person is bound up with that individual’s relation to his family or clan. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, heritage, metaphysics, neo-Hegelianism, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, ontology, originals, Plato, relations, the Absolute, the future, the individual, things, time | Comments closed

Interjú Greg Johnsonnal

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English original here

A szerkesztő megjegyzése:

Ha csak most ismerkedik a Counter-Currents internetes folyóirattal, kitűnő kiindulási pont az alábbi interjú, amelyet Laura Raim francia marxista újságíró készített Greg Johnsonnal. Read more …

Published: March 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged civic nationalism, Counter-Currents Radio, democracy, elitism, ethnic nationalism, Frank Herbert, Georges Bataille, globalization, Greg Johnson, in Hungarian, interviews, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Laura Raim, metapolitics, National Socialism, Neo-Reaction, North American New Right, NRX, organicism, originals, Paleoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy of culture, Plato, podcasts, populism, republicanism, Richard Spencer, the Alternative Right, the mixed regime, thumos, time preferences, white nationalism, William Pierce | Comments closed

Friedrich Schleiermacher:
The Father of Modern Theology & a Prophet of German Nationalism, Part 2

Asklepios

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Schleiermacher’s Philosophy of Mind

According to Schleiermacher, the task of philosophy is the “immersion of the Spirit into the innermost depths of itself and of things in order to fathom the relations of their [spirit and nature] being-together.”[1] Schleiermacher’s philosophy, like German idealism in general, was very influenced by, and a reaction to, the critical transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asklepios, Christmas, Friedrich Schleiermacher, German Idealism, German Nationalism, hermeneutics, Napoleonic Wars, nationalism, philosophy, Protestantism, Romanticism, the Jewish question, theology | Comments closed

Friedrich Schleiermacher:
The Father of Modern Theology & a Prophet of German Nationalism, Part 1

Asklepios

4,148 words

Part 1 of 2. Part 2 here.

“I feel sure that Germany, the kernel of Europe, will arise once more in a new and beautiful state, but when this will happen, and whether the country will not first have to experience even greater difficulties […] God alone knows.” — Friedrich Schleiermacher, 1806[1]

Published: October 20, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asklepios, Christmas, Friedrich Schleiermacher, German Idealism, German Nationalism, Napoleonic Wars, nationalism, philosophy, Protestantism, Romanticism, the Jewish question, theology | Comments closed

Greg Johnson Interviewed

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Editor’s Note:

If you are new to Counter-Currents, the following transcript of Greg Johnson’s interview (audio here) with French Marxist journalist Laura Raim is an excellent place to start. It is the first interview in Greg Johnson’s new book, You Asked for It: Selected Interviews, vol. 1, now available from Counter-Currents.

Q&A about Heidegger

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcription by V. S. of the Q&A session after Jonathan Bowden’s lecture on Martin Heidegger, which has recently been published in Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics. — Greg Johnson

Q: I’ve noticed that Leftists systematically completely misunderstand what Heidegger meant by “nihilism.” Read more …

Published: August 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giovanni Gentile, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Theodor Adorno, Traditionalism | Comments closed

State, Movement, People, Part 3

Carl Schmitt

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Part 3 of 4

Translated with notes by Simona Draghici

III. The Binary State Construction of Liberal Democracy and the German State of the Civil Service

1. The new triadic state structure of the twentieth century has long superseded the binary statal constitutional schema of the liberal democracy of the nineteenth century. Read more …

Published: July 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bureaucracy, Carl Schmitt, liberalism, National Socialism, National Socialist Germany, political philosophy, reprints, the Third Reich, translations, Weimar Republic | Comments closed

Trump Will Complete the System of German Idealism!

Jef Costello

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A few months ago, a delightful eccentric was interviewed on the streets of New York, claiming that Donald Trump, if elected, would “raise Thule,” as well as Atlantis. This chubby-cheeked, curly-haired, manic moppet (who calls himself “Kantbot”) went on to predict that Trump would “complete the system of German Idealism.” The video went viral – at least in our circles.

Published: March 10, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Donald Trump, G. W. Leibniz, German Idealism, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, Jef Costello, Kantbot, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

Pizzagate, Hegel, & Leonard Cohen:
Greg Johnson on Alex Fontana’s Fascist Pigs Podcast

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I joined Alex Fontana’s Fascist Pigs Podcast to talk about Pizzagate, sexual liberation, social decadence, Nietzsche’s conservatism, Hegel on will and freedom, liberalism, Rogue One, film as an art form, and Leonard Cohen. Click here to listen. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Fontana, decadence, Fascist Pigs, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, interviews, Leonard Cohen, liberalism, philosophy, Pizzagate, podcasts, Rogue One, sexual liberation, will | Comments closed

Notes on Philosophical Dialectic

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Socrates

Part 1 of 2

The concept of philosophical dialectic is quite mysterious and intimidating. Even among professional philosophers, dialectic often has connotations of mysticism, obscurantism, and slight of hand. I wish to dispel this aura. I will lay out the elements of philosophical dialectic by looking at specific arguments in Plato’s Republic[1] and Hegel’s Philosophy of Right[2] and then employ Heidegger’s account of the hermeneutic circle Being and Time and Husserl’s account of the logic of parts and wholes in his Logical Investigations to clarify the dialectical process. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dialectic, free will, freedom, Greg Johnson, justice, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Philosophy of Right, Plato, political philosophy, Socrates, The Republic | Comments closed

Carl Schmitt is Right:
Liberal Nations Have Open Borders Because They Have No Concept of the Political

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Before World War II liberal rights were understood among Western states in a libertarian and ethno-nationalistic way. Freedom of association, for example, was understood to include the right to refuse to associate with certain members of certain ethnic groups, even the right to discriminate in employment practices. This racial liberalism was still institutionalized right up until the 1960s. The settler nations of Australia, Canada, United States, and New Zealand enjoyed admission and naturalization policies based on race and culture, intended to keep these nations “White.”

Published: October 28, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, immigration, liberalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Thomas Hobbes, thumos | Comments closed

Video of the Day
The Difficult Balancing Act Between Identity & Reflection

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Matthew Drake’s video for an excerpt from a Counter-Currents podcast. He created the title. Please share and like.

Source: https://youtu.be/PhcxWoIVWo8

Published: October 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right, video of the day | Also tagged Cicero, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, identity, irony, Matthew Drake, philosophy, reflection, video of the day, videos | Comments closed

Greg Johnson Interviewed by Laura Raim about the Alt Right (Transcript)