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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Sep 10, 2009

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Another European Destiny, Part II

Editor’s Note: For the first part of this review essay on Dominique Venner’ s Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen (Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009), click here.4. Der ArbeiterJünger’s nationalist politics turned out to be a passing phase in his long life.  By 1930, after the wind started to go from the revolutionary-nationalist sails and the National...

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Sep 8, 2009

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Another European Destiny

Dominique VennerErnst Jünger: Un autre destin européenParis: Éds. du Rocher, 2009In Dominique Venner’s historical essay, Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen, the subject is presented as une figure ultime, a European archetype provisionally absent from Europe today, but nevertheless one rooted in the depths of the European spirit — and destined, thus, to...

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Jul 25, 2009

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The Seven Samurai

It is remarkable really.Back in the 1960s I used to read about a “Marxist” Japanese movie entitled The Seven Samurai which supposedly inspired an equally Marxist (or was it existentialist?) American western knock off entitled The Magnificent Seven starring Steve McQueen. Well, I saw the American version live at the theater and could not discern anything remotely Marxist...

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Jul 22, 2009

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Nietzsche on Freedom

Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 38 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols. A discussion question: How might Nietzsche be used to explain why America’s founding generation and the presidents drawn from it were greater than every subsequent generation brought up under the system they...

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