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Bryan Magee
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000
Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (just Wagner and Philosophy in the UK) combines two of my favorite subjects into an informative, stimulating, and highly readable book. Creativity and critical reflection are two very different activities, and excellence in one is seldom accompanied by excellence in the other. (more…)
1,422 words
In theory, anarchy is against hierarchy and obedience to authority while traditionalists embrace these unfashionable principles. (more…)
Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill
1,158 words
Finnish translation here
“In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.”
—Situationist graffito, May 1968
As a political ideology, fascism was a mixed bag of 20th-century ideas. Its athletic presence hung with flirty, politically expedient schemes like universal suffrage, in many ways last century’s fascism was defined by its responses to other political movements of the time—like Marxism and liberal capitalism. (more…)
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Craig Fitzgerald is one of the founders of the National Anarchist Tribal Alliance of New York. (more…)
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Excerpted from Hakim Bey’s T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“To die is not enough.”
— D’Annunzio
When pressed about his political allegiance, Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) refused to commit himself. (more…)
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Translated by Bruno Cariou
Part 1 of 2
We would now like to consider the concerns of young generation a little more specifically. There are youths who revolt against the socio-political situation in Italy, and who are at the same time interested in what we call, in general, the world of Tradition. (more…)
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Jack Kerouac
Translated by Bruno Cariou
Part 1 of 2
Editor’s Note:
The following essay, written in 1968, and published in Evola’s volume L’Arco e la Clava (The Bow and the Club, 1968), falls naturally into two parts. The first is Evola’s sympathetic critique of the youth rebellion of the 1950s and the 1960s, with a focus on the Beatniks.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961
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The concept of right-wing anarchism seems paradoxical, indeed oxymoronic, starting from the assumption that all “right-wing” political viewpoints include a particularly high evaluation of the principle of order. . . . In fact right-wing anarchism occurs only in exceptional circumstances, when the hitherto veiled affinity between anarchism and conservatism may become apparent.
