Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935
Emmanuel Faye
Trans. Michael B. Smith, foreword Tom Rockmore
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
Read Part 1 here.
Two.
Faye’s Argument
Heidegger’s seminars of 1933 and 1934, in Emmanuel Faye’s view, expose the “fiction” that separates Heidegger’s philosophy from his politics. For these seminars reveal a [...]
Today I read Any Rand’s 1963 essay “Racism.” I had read Atlas Shrugged as a teenager. It was a little too absolutist for me but I called myself a libertarian for years afterward and still do to a great extent. I find the argument that the vast majority of what states do [...]
John Donne could never have been a libertarian because he believed that “No man is an island,” while libertarians seem to prefer a sort of reverse philosophy which holds that every man is an island. In particular, libertarians are so busy celebrating “the individual” that they give little or no attention to a phenomenon which [...]
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October 19, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged collectivism, John "Birdman" Bryant, libertarianism |
“Linder and Libertarianism”
from Occidental Dissent, September 12, 2009
Libertarians tend to think in abstract terms. They have all sorts of theories about government, economics, and ethics. I’m impressed less by their abstractions and more persuaded by the empirical results that follow their implementation.
We’ve tried almost everything the libertarians recommend over the course of American history: the [...]
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September 16, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Alex Linder, capitalism, collectivism, commercial society, Hunter Wallace, libertarianism, particularism, Prozium, universalism, white nationalism |
The Occidental Quarterly is pleased to announce its second annual essay contest on the topic of “Libertarianism and Racial Nationalism.” For more information, please click here.
The winner of the first TOQ essay contest, on “Secession,” will be announced on August 1st, not July 1st as originally announced. We thank the entrants for their patience.
Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 39 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.
39. Critique of modernity. — Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the [...]
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July 20, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged aristocracy, decadence, egalitarianism, family, feminism, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, hierarchy, liberalism, marriage, racial collectivism |
“What do White Nationalists Want?”
by Jared Taylor
from Taki’s Magazine, June 1, 2009
Lost in Justin Raimondo’s torrent of mistaken assumptions and wild accusations is one useful question: What do “white nationalists” want? By putting the term in quotation marks, Mr. Raimondo has stumbled onto an important truth, namely, that there is no accepted term for contemporary [...]
