Tag Archives: cultural renewal

The Overman High Culture: Future of the West

Ted Sallis

Can the West and its peoples be saved? And what will this take–particularly if we are concerned with a long-term solution rather than a last ditch “stop gap?” Can a new High Culture of the West arise to secure the existence of the peoples of the West for an extended time frame? What characteristics should [...]

Published: April 5, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 25 Comments

Game On: Revenge of the Matriarchs

Matt Parrott

I was walking past WalMart’s aisle of literature when I noticed what appeared to be an entire section of books featuring hot Amish women longingly gazing out over the open plain. After a closer look, I realized that I had stumbled onto the new genre that I’ve being hearing about: Amish Porn. They’re a type [...]

Published: February 15, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , | 2 Comments

Keyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour of Decision (1934)

Thomas F. Bertonneau

Snapshots Of The Continent Entre Deux Guerres: Keyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour Of Decision (1934)
from The Brussels Journal, August 18, 2009
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The Hour of Decision, like everything that Spengler authored, is a rich mine of observation and insight, difficult to summarize, mainly because it communicates so thoroughly with the monumental Decline, to which it [...]

Published: August 24, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nietzsche on Conservatism

The TOQ Classics Corner

Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 43 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.

43. Whispered to the conservatives. — What was not known formerly, what is known, or might be known, today: a reversion, a return in any sense or degree is simply not possible. We physiologists [...]

Published: August 2, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Spengler: Criticism and Tribute

Revilo Oliver

Editor’s Note: Oswald Spengler’s Man and Technics and Revilo Oliver’s America’s Decline: The Education of a Conservative and The Jewish Strategy are available from the TOQ Online Bookshop.
Conceived before the First World War is Oswald Spengler’s magisterial work, Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Munich, 1918). Read in this country chiefly in the brilliantly faithful translation by [...]

Published: June 9, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Yukio Mishima

Kerry Bolton

Yukio Mishima was born into an upper middle class family in 1925. Author of a hundred books, playwright, and actor, he has been described as the “Leonardo da Vinci of contemporary Japan,” and is one of the few Japanese writers to have become widely known and translated in the West.
The Dark Side of the Sun
Since [...]

Published: June 6, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nietzsche and Spengler:
Preface to Thinkers of the Right

Kerry Bolton

Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler loom large over the horizon of twentieth-century European thought. Nietzsche was influential in the thinking of Spengler, whilst either one or both had a major impact on the thinking of most of the writers we deal with herein.

Both were primarily concerned with questions of decay and the possibilities of [...]

Published: June 3, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment
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