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Q&A about Heidegger

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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, G. W. F. Hegel, Giovanni Gentile, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Theodor Adorno, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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Between Pragmatism & the Transcendent:
A Review of Brett Stevens’ Nihilism

Christopher Pankhurst

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Brett Stevens
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity
Colac, Australia: Manticore Press, 2016

The title of Brett Stevens’ new book, Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity, inclined me to think that this work would be in the same vein as other works of pessimist philosophy such as Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, or Eugene Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy trilogy. Read more …

Published: January 5, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Brett Stevens, Christopher Pankhurst, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Comments closed

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Mircea Eliade & the Rediscovery of the Sacred

Guillaume Durocher

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Mircea Eliade et la Redécouverte du Sacré (YouTube, Romanian subtitles)

Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, becoming a respected and influential historian of religions. He acquired something of the status of a guru, as poignantly told in the 1987 documentary Mircea Eliade et la Redécouverte du Sacré. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, documentaries, Guillaume Durocher, Mircea Eliade, Mircea Eliade et la Redécouverte du Sacré, movie reviews, mythology, North American New Right, originals, religion, Romania, the numinous, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Albion’s Hidden Numina
Joy Division

Christopher Pankhurst

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Joy Division left us with the most relentlessly depressing body of songs since Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. In some ways, though, this singularity of approach, this lack of light touches to add color to the palate, is responsible for making them enduringly fascinating. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, Joy Division, North American New Right, originals, popular music, post-punk, the numinous, the occult | Comments closed

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Francis Bacon:
The Dark Theology of Meat

Christopher Pankhurst

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Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Francis Bacon was an extraordinary and extreme artist and one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. He was also a Right-wing elitist and individualist who approached the problem of creating art in the twentieth century with an honesty and intensity that have not really been matched. Generally speaking, it is probably true to say that most of the Right dismiss Bacon along with other contemporary artists mainly because of his unique treatment of the human form. But in my view his art enunciates a violent assault on the complacency of conventional thinking and perception that should be seen as deeply consonant with the project of the Alt Right. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, exhibition reviews, Francis Bacon, modern art, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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How to Be Grumpy:
Aaron Clarey’s The Curse of the High IQ

Ann Sterzinger

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Aaron Clarey
The Curse of the High IQ
CreateSpace, 2016

What’s it like to have nothing to lean on in this bleak world but nihilism?

Aaron Clarey’s new book, The Curse of the High IQ, takes an exceedingly unromantic look at the misfit misery of being too smart. Read more …

Published: April 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aaron Clarey, alienation, Ann Sterzinger, atheism, book reviews, economics, freedom of speech, IQ, liberal education, nerds, North American New Right, originals, The Curse of the High IQ, the manosphere | Comments closed

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A Waste of Space:
Some Thoughts on the Fabulous Career of Philip Johnson, Architect

James J. O'Meara

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” — Philip Johnson[1]

“You know I’ve always wanted to pretend to be an architect.” — George Costanza [2]

“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party” — Mel Brooks, The Producers

Damn you, Philip Johnson! Read more …

Published: December 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred North Whitehead, architecture, articles, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, modern architecture, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Philip Johnson, Ralph Adams Cram | Comments closed

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Notes sur le nihilisme

Greg Johnson

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English original here

On dit souvent que le nihilisme est l’une des principales caractéristiques de l’âge moderne, mais qu’est-ce que le nihilisme ? Le nihilisme signifie quelque chose comme la « mort » de Dieu, la négation du sens et de la valeur objectifs, l’effacement des distinctions morales et des hiérarchies, la dissolution d’un monde commun en perspectives individuelles, et la dissolution d’une culture commune en « préférences données » subjectives. Read more …

Published: September 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, myth, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Comments closed

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Yeats’ heidnisches „Second Coming“

Greg Johnson

Luc Olivier Merson, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1879

Luc Olivier Merson, Rast auf der Flucht nach Ägypten, 1879

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English original here

Übersetzung: Lichtschwert

(Auf AdS nachveröffentlicht anläßlich des heutigen 150. Geburtstages von William Butler Yeats.)

William Butler Yeats verfaßte sein berühmtestes Gedicht, „The Second Coming“, im Jahr 1919, in der Zeit des Großen Krieges und der bolschewistischen Revolution, als die Dinge wahrlich „auseinanderfielen“, darunter hauptsächlich die europäische Zivilisation. Der Titel bezieht sich natürlich auf die Wiederkunft Christi. Read more …

Published: June 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, in German, in translation, Luc Olivier Merson, North American New Right, paganism, poetry, reprints, The Second Coming, W. B. Yeats | Comments closed

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Aiming Higher Than Mere Civilization

James J. O'Meara

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Emericus Durden
Aiming Higher Than Mere Civilization: How Skeptical Nihilism Will Remind Humanity Of Its Long Forgotten Purpose (Emericus Durden Philosophy Series Book 1)
Radical Academic Press, 2014

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”

— “Frank Costello,” The Departed Read more …