Dec 27, 2009

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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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Dec 25, 2009

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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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Dec 24, 2009

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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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Oct 13, 2009

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Go Small or Go Home

“Go Small or Go Home”by Schaeferfrom The Art of Manliness, October 11, 2009. . . I found myself roaming the halls of our newly-built 3-bed, 2-bath suburban home fuming that we didn’t have enough storage space. During college I could carry everything I owned in the back of my Dodge pickup. Now 1,600 square feet was not adequate to house our growing collection of...

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Oct 13, 2009

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Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald

The French statesman, writer, and philosopher, Louis Vicomte de Bonald belongs to the theologist school of the Traditionalists. Bonald was born on October 2nd, 1754 at Monna, near Millau a town in the Rouergue region (Aveyron) of southern France, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Oratorian Collège de Juilly. As an aristocrat, military service was expected, so in 1773...

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May 21, 2009

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The American System vs. the White Race:
D. H. Lawrence on Moby Dick

“What then is Moby Dick? He is the deepest blood-being of the white race; he is our deepest blood-nature.“And he is hunted, hunted, hunted by the maniacal fanaticism of our white mental consciousness. We want to hunt him down. To subject him to our will. And in this maniacal conscious hunt of ourselves we get dark races and pale to help us, red, yellow, and black,...

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Apr 28, 2009

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Evola’s Anti-Semitism

When Julius Evola, one of the leading twentieth-century critics of Judeo-liberal civilization, worked out his racial theory during the 1930s, the principal inspiration for anti-Semitic thought was The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Purportedly stolen from an occult Lodge, the Protocols were a report of twenty-four secret meetings held by the leaders of international Jewry, as...

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