Feb 15, 2010

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Race as Destiny

Author’s Note: The following excerpt is from a longer, footnoted article titled “Freedom’s Racial Imperative: A Heideggerian Argument for the Self-Assertion of Peoples of European Descent” that appeared in the fall 2006 issue of The Occidental Quarterly. Minor changes have been made for the sake of this format. Thanks to Dave Cooper for the idea. Since the...

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Feb 11, 2010

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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Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans.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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Feb 10, 2010

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Heidegger “The Nazi,” Part 2

Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans.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.Two.Faye’s ArgumentHeidegger’s seminars of 1933 and 1934, in Emmanuel Faye’s view, expose the “fiction” that separates Heidegger’s...

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Feb 9, 2010

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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Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans.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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Dec 7, 2009

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Mars & Hephaestus:
The Return of History

Translated by Greg JohnsonAllow me an “archeofuturist” parable based on the eternal symbol of the tree, which I will compare to that the rocket. But before that, let us contemplate the grim face of the coming century.The twenty-first century will be a century of iron and storms. It will not resemble those harmonious futures predicted up to the 1970s. It will not be the global...

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Sep 10, 2009

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Another European Destiny, Part II

Editor’s Note: For the first part of this review essay on Dominique Venner’ s Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen (Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009), click here.4. Der ArbeiterJünger’s nationalist politics turned out to be a passing phase in his long life.  By 1930, after the wind started to go from the revolutionary-nationalist sails and the National...

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Aug 20, 2009

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The Sword

My article “Toward the White Republic,” which recently won the TOQ essay contest (though under shady circumstances according to one critic), has been the subject of several internet discussions, most of which, typical of the medium, have produced more heat than light.Nevertheless, around the margins of this discussion and in a few genuine flashes of insight buried under...

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Jul 21, 2009

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The Real Right? Part II

New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe by Michael O’MearaBloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2004For Part I, click here.. . .  The New Right itself in recent years has moved away not only from its early attraction to a biological view of human nature and society but also from its opposition to multiculturalism, if not to immigration as well.  The earlier...

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Jul 20, 2009

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The Real Right? Part I

New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe by Michael O’MearaBloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2004It tells us a good deal about the nature of contemporary American culture that Michael O’Meara’s important and often brilliant (but unfortunately sometimes opaquely written) account of the thought of the French “New Right” could be published in this country...

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