Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 1
Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom RockmoreNew Haven: Yale University Press, 2009National Socialism was defeated on the field of battle, but it wasn’t defeated in the realm of thought.Indeed, it’s undefeatable there because the only thing its enemies...
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The Last Racialists
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It MattersB. R. MyersBrooklyn: Melville House, 2010It’s always seemed to me that if human beings were naturally more inclined to buy into a blood based nationalism than some kind of universalistic ideology than this would be strong evidence that racial loyalty had a genetic basis. According to B. R. Myers in The...
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The Road to Disunion
The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861William W. FreehlingNew York: Oxford University PressIn his second volume of The Road to Disunion, William W. Freehling explores the climax of the secessionist movement in the American South. Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 takes the reader from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which reignited anti-slavery controversy...
Read MoreThe Psychopathology of Judaism
Psychanalyse de judaïsmeHervé RyssenLevallois: Éds. Baskerville, 2006“The Psychoanalysis of Judaism” is Hervé Ryssen’s second book on the Jews.For Ryssen, who rejects neither the ethnoracial nor the religious designation of Jews, it is their mentality that most distinguishes them from other peoples.To understand this mentality, his first book, Les Espérances...
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What Hath God Wrought:
The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
What Hath God Wrought:The Transformation of America, 1815-1848Daniel Walker HoweNew York: Oxford University Press, 2009In the Oxford History of the United States series, Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought picks up where Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty left off in the War of 1812. It takes the reader from Andrew Jackson’s victory over the British at the Battle of...
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Empire of Liberty
Empire of LibertyA History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815by Gordon S. WoodNew York: Oxford University Press, 2009I have always enjoyed the escapism of reading a good book about the White Republic. It is a relief to return on occasion to an earlier chapter of American history when the racial and cultural foundations of our national identity were unquestioned. White men once...
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Street Fighting Man
Action!Race War to Door Wars Joe OwensLulu, 2007Joe Owens was “on the door,” working as a bouncer at a popular Liverpool nightspot called The Garage when three fun-seekers came in: a blind man and his two companions. Sitting the blind man down, one of his friends went to the bar, the other to the men’s room. As Owens writes:It didn’t take too long before the white trash...
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Don’t Eat the Strange Fruit
There has been some discussion on the Internet about the book Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate by South Asian intellectual Kenan Malik, a book in which the work of Frank Salter is sharply critiqued. Now, the person best suited to answer Malik is Salter himself; further, I don’t see Malik introducing any novel arguments beyond that already presented by...
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The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 3 (Conclusion)
Review of:Reinhart KoselleckCritique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.3. The Crisis of the Old Order“When and whenever [men] are subjects without being citizens, they inevitably endow other concerns and pursuits—economic, social, cultural—with an independent and hence rival...
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The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 2
Review of:Reinhart KoselleckCritique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988Read Part 1 here.2. The Culture of CritiqueIt was the failure to comprehend the nature of the Absolutist State system (its avoidance of divisive political questions of faith and belief) that gave rise to the Enlightenment and its culture of critique.For...
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