Counter-Currents
The World in Flames:
The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockey
Centennial Edition Publishing, 2020
510 pages
Ed. Kerry Bolton and John Morgan Limited hardcover edition: 512 pages Paperback edition: 506 pages
About The World in Flames:
The World in Flames collects all of Francis Parker Yockey’s surviving essays and correspondence, including recent and never-before-published archival discoveries. The volume is edited with an Introduction and annotations by Kerry Bolton, the foremost expert on Yockey’s life and thought. The World in Flames is an indispensable volume for understanding America’s most important anti-liberal thinker.
The World in Flames is the first published volume of the new three-volume Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Writings. The General Editor of the edition is Greg Johnson.
Volume One:
Imperium
The Philosophy of History & Politics
Edited by Greg Johnson
(San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2021)
Volume Two:
The Enemy of Europe
Edited and translated by Thomas Francis
(San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2020)
Volume Three:
The World in Flames
The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey
Edited by Kerry Bolton & John Morgan
(San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2020)
Each volume in the edition will be published in a limited hardcover edition of 200 numbered copies, as well as in paperback and electronic versions. As with our edition of Savitri Devi’s works, the hardcovers will be manufactured to the highest academic press standards.
Note: Because of the manufacturing time, the limited edition of The World in Flames will be available in June, 2020. Please bear in mind that Imperium will be released in 2023, and The Enemy of Europe will be released in the Summer of 2022.
Contents
Introduction by Kerry Bolton — iii
Editorial Note by John Morgan — vii
- Philosophy of Constitutional Law (1937) — 1
- The Tragedy of Youth (1939) — 36
- Life as an Art (1940) — 43
- Twentieth-Century Metaphysics (ca. 1945–48) — 55
- 1848–1948: Years of Decision (1948) — 61
- Italo-English Convention (1949) — 65
- The Proclamation of London of the European Liberation Front (1949) — 70
- Correspondence with Adrien Arcand (1949–50) — 111
- Varange Speaks! (1950) — 131
- America’s Two Ways of Waging War (1950–51) — 140
- Correspondence with Virginia Johnson (1950–52) — 145
- Thoughts Personal & Superpersonal (ca. 1950) — 156
- Miscellaneous Notes (ca. 1950–53) — 176
- Thoughts Upon Waking (ca. 1950–53) — 181
- Two Reflections (1950, 1953) — 189
- The Death of England (1951) — 194
- America’s Two Ways of Waging War (1951) — 198
- America’s Two Political Factions (1952) — 218
- Correspondence with Dean Acheson (1952) — 226
- What is Behind the Hanging of the Eleven Jews in Prague? (1952) — 252
- Letter to Wolfgang Sarg (1953) — 264
- Brotherhood (1953) — 275
- Culture (1953) — 296
- Translator’s Preface to Der Feind Europas (1953) — 307
- Oswald Spengler, the American Jewish Committee, & Russia (1954) — 312
- The Destiny of America (1955) — 326
- “Hang On & Pray”: Arnold Toynbee, Co-Existence Apostle (1956) — 340
- A Warning to America: An Estimate of China, a Warning to the West (1959) — 365
- The World in Flames (1960) — 397
- The Suicide Note — 416
- Fragments (1952–1960) — 420
APPENDICES
I. Frontfighter, issues 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, & 23 (1950–52) — 433
II. H. Keith Thompson, “In Memoriam—Francis P. Yockey” (1960) — 462
The limited-edition hardcover has a third appendix of six pages with seven photographs of Francis Parker Yockey, six of which have never been published.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS — 463
INDEX — 469