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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Nov 24, 2009

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Ab Aeterno & The Occidental Quarterly

The first issue of Ab Aeterno: Journal of the Academy of Social and Political Research has just appeared.Ab Aeterno (which means “from the most remote antiquity”) is a joint venture sponsored by nationalists of Greek, Italian, Australian, and New Zealand origins — Dimitris Michalopoulos, José Maria Ingrassia, Jim Saleam, and Kerry Bolton, respectively.The last...

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Oct 12, 2009

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On the Secret of Degeneration

Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, or collapse of a higher...

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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 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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