Apr 5, 2010

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Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Note: The following short synthesis of Schmitt’s classic essay The Concept of the Political stems, in part, from a recent discussion with the Bay Area Nationalist Book Club.However it is posed, the question of the political is always about the most important issue facing every people.The political, though, is not to be confused with “politics” or...

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Mar 31, 2010

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Taking Our Own Side

We all have natural partialities: for family over non-kin, friends over strangers, fellow countrymen over foreigners, racial brethren over members of other races. Philosophers from Aristotle to Carl Schmitt have recognized that these partialities are the heart of political life.But most moralists eye these partialities with suspicion. Moral laws, they claim, apply to everyone,...

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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Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935Emmanuel FayeTrans.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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Sep 16, 2009

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More from Hunter Wallace on Libertarianism

“Linder and Libertarianism”from Occidental Dissent, September 12, 2009Libertarians 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...

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