By Guillaume Faye and Robert Steuckers 1
The Lesson of Carl Schmitt, Part 3
Schmitt’s followers, extending and refining his thought, have with Rüdiger Altmann coined the concept of the Ernstfall (emergency case), which constitutes another fundamental criterion of the political. Political sovereignty and the credibility of a new political authority is based on the capacity to face and solve emergency cases. The dominant political ideologies, thoroughly...
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The Lesson of Carl Schmitt, Part 2
Translated by Greg JohnsonSchmitt does not believe in the disappearance of the political. Any type of activity can take on a political dimension. The political is a fundamental concept of collective anthropology. As such, political activity can be described as substantial, essential, enduring through time. The state, on the other hand, enjoys only conditional authority, i.e., a...
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The Lesson of Carl Schmitt, Part 1
Translated by Greg JohnsonWe met Carl Schmitt in the village of Plettenberg, the place of his birth and retirement. For four remarkable hours we conversed with the man who remains unquestionably the greatest political and legal thinker of our time. “We have been put out to pasture,” said Schmitt. “We are like domestic animals who enjoy the benefits of the closed field we are...
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Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political
Note: The following short synthesis of Schmitt’s classic essay The Concept of the Political stems, in part, from a recent discussion with the Bay Area Nationalist Book Club.However it is posed, the question of the political is always about the most important issue facing every people.The political, though, is not to be confused with “politics” or...
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Interview with Robert Steuckers
When and why did you decide to become involved in politics?I was never actually involved in politics, as I was never a member of a political party. Nevertheless I am a citizen interested in political questions but of course not in the usual plain and trivial way, as I have no intention to become a candidate, council deputy or Member of Parliament.For me “politics” means...
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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 3 (Conclusion)
Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans.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, 2009Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.Three.Race and StateFrom the above, the reader might conclude that Faye’s Heidegger is a wreck of a book. And, in large part, it is, as I will...
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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 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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The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 1
Reinhart KoselleckCritique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988La politique, c’est le destin. — NapoleonKoselleck’s Critique and Crisis (1959) is one of the great dissertations of the 20th-century German university system.It cast new light not just on the past it re-presented, but on the present, whose own...
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