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Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Two:
Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages

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Introduction

In the previous essay (“Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part One: Platonism”) I began to sketch Heidegger’s argument for the claim that Western metaphysics lays the groundwork for the nihilism and decadence of modernity. I framed this account partly as a critique of the Traditionalists Julius Evola and René Guénon, who aimed to combat modernity with a “Traditionalism” grounded in Western metaphysics Read more …

Published: January 29, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, Christianity, Collin Cleary, consciousness, God, knowing, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, modernity, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, objectivity, omnipotence, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, Platonism, presence, problem of the external world, subjectivity, Traditionalism | 16 Responses

Remembering Mr. Gurdjieff
(January 13, 1866/1872/1877–October 24, 1949)

Mr. Gurdjieff

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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of the Russian Empire (it is now in Armenia and is called Gyumri). Read more …

Published: January 13, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, Bodhidharma, Buddhism, Collin Cleary, David Hume, epistemology, esotericism, George Gurdjieff, knowing, mechanicality, metaphysics, modernity, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, René Descartes, subjectivity, technology, the ego, the Self, wakefulness | 13 Responses

The Golden Path:
Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune & God Emperor of Dune

Greg Johnson

Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) is one of the masterpieces of science fiction, far eclipsing its five sequels in readership and reputation. But I wish to argue that the third and fourth Dune books, Children of Dune (1976) and God Emperor of Dune (1981), are equally audacious works of the imagination. [1] Both volumes tend to be underrated, partly due to the long shadow of Dune, partly because the sheer scope of Herbert’s vision boggles the mind, Read more …

Published: January 12, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book reviews, Children of Dune, Dune, dystopia, Frank Herbert, free will, Gelassenheit, God Emperor of Dune, Greg Johnson, honor, knowing, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, science fiction, thumos, utopia | 13 Responses

Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part 1:
Platonism

Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511.

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1. Introduction

In my essay “Heidegger Against the Traditionalists,” I sketched a critique of Guénon and Evola from a Heideggerian perspective. Although I raised several objections to Traditionalism, the crucial one was this: Guénon and Evola are thoroughly (and uncritically) invested in the Western metaphysical tradition. According to Heidegger, however, it is precisely the Western metaphysical tradition that is responsible for all the modern ills decried by the Traditionalists. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alētheia, ancient Greeks, anti-modernism, Aristotle, articles, Collin Cleary, concealment, Dasein, Edmund Husserl, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, myth, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, phusis, Plato, Platonism, presence, primordial metaphysics, Socrates, the Forms, tradition, Traditionalism, truth, Western philosophy | 14 Responses

Heidegger Against the Traditionalists

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1. Introduction

Those on the New Right are bound together partly by shared intellectual interests. Ranking very high indeed on any list of those interests would be the works of Martin Heidegger and those of the Traditionalist [1] school, especially René Guénon and Julius Evola. My own work has been heavily influenced by both Heidegger and Traditionalism. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, Collin Cleary, Dasein, die Lichtung, empiricism, Julius Evola, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, Platonism, primordial metaphysics, Rene Guénon, the clearing, tradition, Traditionalism, Western philosophy | 30 Responses

The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Nine

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Mitch gathers Melanie’s still unconscious body into his arms and carries her down the stairs. Lydia walks ahead of him, carrying an oil lamp. “Oh, poor thing! Poor thing!” she says. Her resentment toward Melanie now completely gone, she feels only pity. Lydia goes to fetch bandages, as Mitch lays Melanie on the living room sofa. He asks Cathy to get some brandy, Read more …

Published: July 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, Alfred Hitchcock, articles, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, family, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds | 16 Responses

The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Eight

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

At first, we hear the sound of birds singing. The sound is pretty and harmless. Is it the lovebirds in the kitchen? Then we hear fluttering and flapping. This grows louder and louder and the pretty singing of a moment before is replaced by angry cawing and screeching. It is one of the most interesting scenes in the entire film. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, feminism, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Birds, the uncanny | 2 Responses

The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Five

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

In the last installment, I began to explore the possibility that The Birds can be understood as an “existentialist” parable. I argued that the film depicts what Heidegger calls das Ereignis (the event): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, apocalypse, articles, complacency, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, environmentalism, hubris, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, modernism, mortality, nature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds, the uncanny | 8 Responses

The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Four

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

We ended our last installment in the midst of the pivotal scene in the Tides Restaurant. There, we met Mrs. Bundy, a droll parody of modern, Western, pig-headed scientism. With arch condescension, she refuses to believe Melanie’s stories about the bird attacks. “Impossible!” Mrs. Bundy declares. “Their brain pans aren’t large enough. . . Really, let’s be logical about this,” Read more …

Published: June 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art, articles, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, destiny, humanism, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, nature, North American New Right, originals, paradigm shifts, philosophy, psychology, scientism, The Birds, Transcendence | 4 Responses

Video of the Day
Being, Place, & Living Authentically

Video of the Day

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What does it mean to be exactly where you should be? How does one live authentically? Neil Kramer, Mike Enoch, Matthew Raphael Johnson, Morgoth, and Greg Johnson talk about being, ethnicity, Heidegger, rootedness, and man’s relationship to location.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRNMhZr9Ry0

Published: April 17, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ethnicity, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, Matthew Raphael Johnson, Mike Enoch, Morgoth, video of the day | Leave a comment

Ancestral Being, Part Four

Siegfried & Mime, Arthur Rackham, 1911

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here)

7. Concluding Reflections

I turn now to some thoughts on how the foregoing treatment of the influence of the past on the present ought to affect our own present, when we finish this essay and return to the real world.

It is a well-known fact that our ancestors acted with awareness of membership in the clan: trying to be worthy of their own ancestors, and not to disgrace them. Read more …

Published: March 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, clans, Collin Cleary, death, East vs. West, ethnicity, fylgja, Germanic tradition, hamingja, Heraclitus, heritage, heroism, individualism, logos, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, originals, Plato, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual | 4 Responses

Ancestral Being, Part Two

The Norns by Johannes Gehrts, 1889

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

4. Tradition

Having now discussed the clannic being of the individual purely in philosophical terms, I now turn to a consideration of the treatment of this idea in the Germanic tradition.

The first thing we must note is what can be called the “primacy of the past” in that tradition. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, C. G. Jung, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, hamingja, heritage, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, ontology, originals, Plato, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual, time, Volsunga Saga | 1 Response

Ancestral Being, Part One