Jul 17, 2009

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Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis is credited with being the founder of the only modernist cultural movement indigenous to Britain. Nonetheless, he is seldom spoken of in the same breath as his contemporaries, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and others. Lewis was one of the number of cultural figures who rejected the bourgeois liberalism and democracy of the nineteenth century that...

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Jul 11, 2009

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Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil

In 1916 Hamsun began work on what became his greatest and most idealistic novel, Growth of the Soil, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. It painted Hamsun’s ideal of a solid, farm-based culture, where human values, instead of being fixed upon transitory artificialities which modern society had deemed fashionable, would be based upon the fixed wheel of the...

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Jul 1, 2009

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Francis Parker Yockey on the Subjective Meaning of Race

Race, as has been shown, is not a unit of existence, but is an aspect of existence. Specifically it is the aspect of existence in which the relation of the human being to the great cosmic rhythms is revealed. It is thus the non-individual aspect of Life, whether it be the life of a plant, animal, or human being.The plant exhibits — at least, not to us — no...

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Jun 17, 2009

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

“We artists are only then astonished witnesses of eternal aspirations, which help raise up our breed to its destiny.”Gabriele D’Annunzio, unique combination of artist and warrior, was born in 1863 into a merchant family He was a Renaissance Man par excellence. This warrior bard was to have a crucial impact upon the rise of fascism despite his not always being in...

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Jun 6, 2009

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Yukio Mishima

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 SunSince World War II, the West has forgotten the Shadow soul of...

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Jun 3, 2009

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Nietzsche and Spengler:
Preface to Thinkers of the Right

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 regeneration. Both held that Western...

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