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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 3
Black Metal and the Return of Völkisch Thought How did völkisch ideas resurface in popular culture? By the 1960s Christianity had entered a phase of decline in the West, following a long period of growing skepticism as well as hostility from political ideologies from both Right and Left. As has been the pattern in the West since the fourth century,[1] the decline of the dominant...
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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 2
Völkisch Thought and the Conservative RevolutionSome of the most fascinating aspects of Black Metal are its parallels with the ideas and sensibilities of the Conservative Revolution and the wider völkisch (populist) movement that swept Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These similarities are so striking that Black Metal may well be considered, if not the...
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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 1
From the viewpoint of racial nationalism, the musical genre known as Black Metal is one of the most significant popular culture phenomena of the last two decades. Yet it has been seldom discussed by politically congenial scholars and commentators. This is surprising, since Black Metal runs counter to the post-World War II trends toward the progressive marginalization, condemnation,...
Read MoreNew Views of Nietzsche
One hundred years ago [1887] Thus Spoke Zarathustra appeared. The most celebrated work of Nietzsche, it has been read and cited by even moderately educated people. The German philosopher has a stormy reputation due to his tirades against Christianity and his aristocratic rejection of conventional moral views. Nietzsche provokes all kinds of reactions. Each reader may have his own...
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The Golden Thread
El Cordón Dorado: Hitlerismo EsotericoMiguel SerranoBogota, Colombia: Editorial Solar, 2001As far as I am aware, this is the first published review in English of The Golden Thread: Esoteric Hitlerism, the first volume in Miguel Serrano’s Esoteric Hitlerist trilogy. Having woven a shadowy conspiracy of Esoteric Hitlerists into my dystopian novel Mister, and having recently...
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Defiance
Defiance: The Prison Memoirs of Savitri DeviSavitri DeviEd. R. G. FowlerThe Savitri Devi Archive, 2007One feature of my recent novel, Mister (Iron Sky Publishing, 2009), that has stirred up a ferment of discussion and questions is the shadowy conspiracy of “Esoteric Hitlerists” that runs like a golden thread through the labyrinth of the plot.As much as I would like to take...
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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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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...
Read MoreHeidegger “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...
Read MoreSven Hedin in the News
Editor’s Note: Sven Hedin was one of the twentieth century’s greatest explorers. He was also a masterful writer who produced many gripping memoirs of his travels and discoveries in Central Asia, Mongolia, and the Himalayas. Hedin was one quarter Jewish (his mother’s father was a Jew). This fact was known to Hitler and the other Nazis whom Hedin befriended. It...
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