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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 266
Pulp Fiction

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In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, where we discussed The Matrix, American Beauty, Ground Hog Day, Network, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Gattaca, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Alexandre Kojève a konec dějin

Alexandre Kojève

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Poznámka autora: Následuje přepis řeči, kterou jsem v roce 2000 přednesl v Atlantě. Odstranil jsem příliš košaté větné konstrukce, stejně jako občasnou interakci s publikem.

Žijeme v době bohaté na předpovědi konce věků. Loni, na konci roku 1999, oslavovala drtivá většina silvestrovských hýřilů o rok předčasně konec milénia. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, end of history, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, Greg Johnson, in Czech, Leo Strauss, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, Slavoj Žižek, Zbigniew Brzezinski | Leave a comment

Technologická utopie a etnický nacionalismus

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Poznámka autora: Následuje přepis mé řeči, která zazněla na čtvrtém setkání fóra Scandza v Kodani 15. září 2018. Při svém minulém vystoupení na Scandza fóru jsem hovořil o nutnosti vytvořit zvláštní etnonacionalistické poselství pro všechny bělošské skupiny, včetně třeba fandů Star Treku. Následující řádky tedy budiž jakousi epištolou určenou „Trekkies“. Rád bych také poděkoval všem účastníkům i organizátorům fóra Skandza. (na videozáznam řeči se můžete podívat zde)

Reflections on the Supremacy of the West:
A Critique of Ricardo Duchesne & Niall Ferguson

Alexander Jacob

Niall Ferguson

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In 2011 there appeared two major scholarly works that attempted to investigate the sources of Western supremacy in the modern world, especially in view of the recent rise of China as a potential threat to this supremacy. These are the Puerto Rican-Canadian social historian Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization[1] and the British economic historian Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest.[2] Read more …

Published: April 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Jacob, articles, book reviews, G. W. F. Hegel, hinduism, Indo-European culture, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, Ricardo Duchesne, the Indo-Europeans, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Western uniqueness | 10 Responses

Fukuyama on Civic Nationalism

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In his new book Identity, Francis Fukuyama seeks to forestall the rise of white identity politics. Nevertheless, as I argue in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” Identity is a very useful book for White Nationalists because it concedes many of our most important premises. In “Fukuyama on Diversity,” I argue that Fukuyama admits that diversity is a problem and offers only very weak reasons to value it at all. Here I examine Fukuyama’s alternative to white identity politics, namely a conservative form of color-blind civic nationalism. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, European Union, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos, United States | 10 Responses

Fukuyama on Diversity

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Francis Fukuyama’s latest book Identity was written to forestall the rise of Right-wing identity politics, but, as I argued in “Fukuyama on Identity Politics,” the book is actually very useful to White Nationalists because it concedes a number of our basic premises while offering weak reasons to resist our ultimate political conclusions. This is especially apparent in his discussion of diversity.

Published: January 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos | 11 Responses

Fukuyama on Identity Politics

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Francis Fukuyama
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
London: Profile Books, 2018[1]

Francis Fukuyama is the most eminent living neoconservative intellectual. I have admired and benefitted from his work since 1992, when he published his first book, The End of History and the Last Man. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identity, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Plato, thumos | 7 Responses

Alexandre Kojève & the End of History

Alexandre Kojève

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Czech version here

Author’s Note:

This is transcript by V. S. of a talk that I gave in Atlanta in 2000. As usual, I have eliminated some wordy constructions and some back-and-forth with the audience.

We live in a time when there’s a lot of talk about the ends of ages. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, end of history, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, liberalism, North American New Right, originals | 13 Responses

Mõtisklusi Carl Schmitti „Poliitilise mõiste“ üle

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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„Miks me ei saa kõik sõbrad olla?“ – Rodney King

Carl Schmitti lühike raamat „Poliitilise mõiste“ („Der Begriff des Politischen“, 1932 [eesti keeles 2002]) on üks 20. sajandi poliitilise filosoofia kõige olulisemaid teoseid.

„Poliitilise mõiste“ sihib poliitika kaitsmisele poliitika kaotamise utopistliku kire eest. Read more …

Published: November 11, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, in Estonian, in translation, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, The Concept of the Political, universalism, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Refleksje nad Pojęciem polityczności Carla Schmitta

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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„Czy możemy się po prostu dogadać?” — Rodney King

Krótka książka Carla Schmitta Pojęcie polityczności (1932) jest jednym z najważniejszych dzieł dwudziestowiecznej filozofii politycznej[1].

Głównym celem Pojęcia polityczności jest obrona polityki przed utopijnymi próbami jej porzucenia. Anty-polityczny utopizm zawiera wszystkie formy liberalizmu, jak również międzynarodowego socjalizmu, globalnego kapitalizmu, anarchizmu oraz pacyfizmu: Read more …

Published: October 16, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, in Polish, in translation, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, The Concept of the Political, universalism, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Trois questions sur l’Identitarisme

« La prochaine fois que nous combattrons, ce sera côte à côte. »

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Note de l’auteur

Les réponses suivantes ont été faites à au questionnaire d’un chercheur universitaire qui est en train d’écrire un livre sur le mouvement identitaire.

1. Voyez-vous Counter-Currents comme un éditeur identitaire ?
Read more …

Published: August 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identitarianism, in French, in translation, interviews, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Samuel Huntington | Leave a comment

Greg Johnson Interviews F. Roger Devlin on Alexandre Kojève & the End of History

Alexandre Kojève in 1922

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V. S. of my conversation with F. Roger Devlin about Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) and the end of history. To listen to the audio in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Read more …

Published: July 14, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, existentialism, F. Roger Devlin, Francis Fukuyama, globalization, Greg Johnson, interviews, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Marxism, neoconservatism, originals, podcasts, postmodernism | 3 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 131
The Importance of Solzhenitsyn:
Tom Sunić Interviews F. Roger Devlin

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Tom Sunić and F. Roger Devlin discuss the abiding importance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Read more …

Published: July 9, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Counter-Currents Radio, F. Roger Devlin, interviews, podcasts, the Jewish question, Tomislav Sunić, USSR | 3 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 130
Tom Sunić Interviews F. Roger Devlin on Kojève & Solzhenitsyn

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Tom interviews accomplished writer and thinker F. Roger Devlin. Topics include: Read more …

Published: July 8, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, F. Roger Devlin, G. W. F. Hegel, interviews, philosophy, philosophy of history, podcasts, progressivism, Tomislav Sunić | Leave a comment

Crowdsourcing Appeal
Tom Sunić Interviews F. Roger Devlin

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Thanks. We now have them.

Tom Sunić interviewed F. Roger Devlin twice on The Sunić Journal on Voice of Reason:

February 16, 2010: Alexandre Kojève
April 12, 2011: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Published: July 8, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, news item, Tomislav Sunić | 2 Responses

Tres preguntas sobre el indetitarismo

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Traducido por Synchronistic Child

Nota del autor: Lo que sigue es una serie de respuestas a un cuestionario de un investigador académico que está escribiendo un libro sobre el movimiento identitario.

Pulp Fiction in Czech

Trevor Lynch

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Pulp Fiction Quentina Tarantina se řadí k mým nejoblíbenějším filmům. Nechtěl jsem, aby se mi líbil – původně jsem na něj dokonce ani nechtěl jít. Podle všeho co jsem o něm slyšel, jsem film měl za naprosto nihilistický a dosti odpudivý počin. Pak ale někdo na večírku popsal Pulp Fiction jako film o „velikosti duše na konci historie“, což mě zaujalo, protože jsem zrovna asi po tisící pročítal Platónovu Ústavu – Read more …

Published: March 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, hedonism, in Czech, in translation, movie reviews, North American New Right, philosophy, Plato, postmodernism, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, reprints | Leave a comment

Tři otázky k tématu identitářství

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Poznámka: Jedná se o odpovědi na otázky akademika, sestavujícího knihu o identitárním hnutí.

1. Vnímáte Counter-Currents jako identitářské nakladatelství?

Three Questions on Identitarianism

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Translations: Czech, Spanish

Author’s Note:

The following answers are to a questionnaire from an academic researcher who is writing a book on the Identitarian movement.

1. Do you see Counter-Currents as an Identitarian publisher?

Yes and no. Read more …

Published: March 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, identitarianism, interviews, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Samuel Huntington | 3 Responses

Un agujero en el Ser:
Notas sobre la Negatividad

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Salvador Dalí, Book Transforming Itself Into a Nude Woman

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G. W. F. Hegel y su intérprete Alexandre Kojève afirman que la esencia de la conciencia es “negatividad”, que el hombre vive “por fuera de sí mismo”, que el hombre “niega” su naturaleza o es de naturaleza “nihilista”, que el hombre es la “nada” o un “agujero en el ser”, que el hombre es “tiempo que niega espacio”. ¿Qué significa esto? Read more …

Published: February 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Jean-Paul Sartre, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Leave a comment

¿Por qué leer a Hegel? Notas sobre el “fin de la historia”

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Traducido por Synchronistic Child

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) ha ejercido una influencia tremenda en el mundo moderno, no solo en la historia de las ideas, sino también en el ámbito de lo político. Read more …

Published: February 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Communism, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Karl Marx, North American New Right, originals, Phenomenology of Spirit, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | Leave a comment

Γιατί να διαβάζ˙ουμε Χέγκελ;

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Μετάφραση Α.Γ

Ο Γκέοργκ Βίλχελμ Φρίντριχ Χέγκελ (Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770-1831) άσκησε τεράστια επίδραση στο σύγχρονο κόσμο, όχι μόνο στην ιστορία των ιδεών αλλά και στο πεδίο της πολιτικής. Πόσο μεγάλη επίδραση; Χωρίς τον Χέγκελ δεν θα υπήρχε ο Μαρξ˙ χωρίς τον Μαρξ δεν θα υπήρχε ο Λένιν, ούτε ο Μάο, ο Κάστρο, ούτε ο Πολ Ποτ. Read more …

Published: February 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Communism, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, in Greek, in translation, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Karl Marx, North American New Right, originals, Phenomenology of Spirit, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | Leave a comment

A Hole in Being:
Notes on Negativity

Salvador Dalí, Book Transforming Itself Into a Nude Woman

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G. W. F. Hegel and his able interpreter Alexandre Kojève claim that the essence of consciousness is “negativity,” that man lives “outside himself,” that man “negates” or “nihilates” nature, that man is a “nothingness” or a “hole in being,” that man is “time that negates space.” What does this all mean?

Published: February 24, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, Jean-Paul Sartre, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 4 Responses

Why Read Hegel?
Notes on the “End of History”

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Translations: Greek, Spanish

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) has had a tremendous influence on the modern world, not only in the history of ideas, but in the political realm as well. How big an influence? Without Hegel, there would have been no Marx; without Marx, no Lenin, no Mao, no Castro, no Pol Pot. Now, reflect just a moment on the difference the Communism has made in the modern world, even in non-Communist countries, whose policies were deeply motivated by the desire to defeat Communism. Read more …

Published: February 19, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Communism, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Karl Marx, North American New Right, originals, Phenomenology of Spirit, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | 19 Responses

Réflexions sur le livre de Carl Schmitt, Le concept du Politique

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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« Pouvons-nous tous nous entendre ? »

— Rodney King

Le petit livre de Carl Schmitt, Le concept du Politique (1932), est l’un des plus importants ouvrages de philosophie politique du XXe siècle [1].

Le but du Concept du Politique est de défendre la politique des aspirations utopiques à abolir la politique. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, political philosophy, The Concept of the Political, universalism, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 78
Greg Johnson Interviews F. Roger Devlin on Alexandre Kojève & the End of History

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3
Hegel & the Struggle for Recognition

Collin Cleary

G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831

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Part 3 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition

The Beginning & the End of History

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The duel to the death over honor is a remarkable phenomenon. Animals duel over dominance, which insures their access to mates. But these duels result in death only by accident, because the whole process is governed by their survival instincts, and their “egos” do not prevent them from surrendering when the fight is hopeless. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. S. Lewis, capitalism, David Hume, Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, honor, John Locke, liberalism, manliness, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, the bourgeoisie, Thomas Hobbes, thumos, warrior ethics | 16 Responses