Apr 5, 2010

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The Overman High Culture: Future of the West

Can the West and its peoples be saved? And what will this take–particularly if we are concerned with a long-term solution rather than a last ditch “stop gap?” Can a new High Culture of the West arise to secure the existence of the peoples of the West for an extended time frame? What characteristics should such a new culture have?I will assume the reader is familiar with...

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Mar 30, 2010

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Against Nihilism: Julius Evola’s “Traditionalist” Critique of Modernity

With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898 – 1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the...

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Mar 27, 2010

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Interview with Robert Steuckers

When and why did you decide to become involved in politics?I was never actually involved in politics, as I was never a member of a political party. Nevertheless I am a citizen interested in political questions but of course not in the usual plain and trivial way, as I have no intention to become a candidate, council deputy or Member of Parliament.For me “politics” means...

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Sep 9, 2009

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The New Relevance of Oswald Spengler

Prophet of Decline:Spengler on World History and Politics John FarrenkopfBaton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001With the victory of the democracies and their communist allies over fascist Europe in 1945, Oswald Spengler’s view of history quickly fell into obscurity.  Though it once enjoyed intellectual respectability and even popularity throughout the Western...

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Aug 24, 2009

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Keyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour of Decision (1934)

Snapshots Of The Continent Entre Deux Guerres: Keyserling’s Europe (1928) and Spengler’s Hour Of Decision (1934)from The Brussels Journal, August 18, 2009[. . .]The Hour of Decision, like everything that Spengler authored, is a rich mine of observation and insight, difficult to summarize, mainly because it communicates so thoroughly with the monumental Decline, to which it...

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Jul 31, 2009

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Oswald Spengler on World Peace

“Is World Peace Possible?”A cabled reply to an American pollFirst published in Cosmopolitan, January, 1936The question whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most...

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Jul 14, 2009

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The Tragic Life of a Spenglerian Visionary

Dreamer of the Day:Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist Internationalby Kevin CooganBrooklyn: Autonomedia, 1999The American writer Francis Parker Yockey has long enjoyed cult status on the authoritarian fringe of the American far right.  That the first serious attempt at a study of his life and influence, Kevin Coogan’s Dreamer of the Day, is the work of a...

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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 19, 2009

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Spengler: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas

Oswald Spengler was born in Blankenburg (Harz) in central Germany in 1880, the eldest of four children, and the only boy. His mother’s side of the family was quite artistically bent. His father, who had originally been a mining technician and came from a long line of mineworkers, was an official in the German postal bureaucracy, and he provided his family with a simple but...

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Jun 9, 2009

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Spengler: Criticism and Tribute

Editor’s Note: Oswald Spengler’s Man and Technics and Revilo Oliver’s America’s Decline: The Education of a Conservative and The Jewish Strategy are available from the TOQ Online Bookshop.Conceived before the First World War is Oswald Spengler’s magisterial work, Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Munich, 1918). Read in this country chiefly in the...

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