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Roy Morris, Jr.
Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013
Oscar Wilde arrived in America in January 1882 as a young man of 27. Over the course of the next eleven months he would travel 15,000 miles across the country, delivering a total of 140 lectures primarily on the English Renaissance, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the decorative arts. (more…)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961
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English version here
Traducido por Francisco Albanese
El concepto de anarquismo derechista parece paradójico, de hecho, oximorónico, partiendo desde la suposición de que todos los puntos de vista políticos “derechistas” incluyen una evaluación particularmente alta del principio de orden… En efecto, el anarquismo de derecha ocurre sólo en circunstancias excepcionales, cuando la hasta ahora velada afinidad entre el anarquismo y el conservadurismo puede hacerse aparente. (more…)
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English original: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Antes de entrar no assunto principal, eu gostaria de fazer três observações preliminares:
Eu hesitei em aceitar seu convite para falar sobre a figura do dândi, pois esse tipo de questão não é meu tema principal de interesse.
Eu finalmente aceitei porque redescobri um ensaio lúcido e magistral de Otto Mann, (more…)
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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later. (more…)
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Owen Wister
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University
New York: Macmillan, 1903
Kindle annotated edition by Daniel P. B. Smith, with original illustrations, 2012. Online web version here.
“When you call me that, smile.” — Owen Wister, The Virginian (more…)
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English version here
Čandalistické dekadentní figury
Existenciální krize, jež započala zhruba v polovině 18. století, vyústila v nihilismus, který Friedrich Nietzsche s odsudkem charakterizoval jako “vyčerpání života” a “znehodnocení všech hodnot”, projevující se vzrušeným neklidem a neschopností si užívat volného času. Právě tento neklid pak urychlil proces vyčerpání. (more…)
Buffalo Bill Cody
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Editor’s Note:
The following text is excerpted from chapter 5 of James J. O’Meara’s book The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics and Popular Culture, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.
Many of today’s “alternative” Rightists aspire to a pre-modern, even Traditional worldview that they hope will return us to the vital sources of our civilization. (more…)
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French translation here
Alan Watts
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
New York: Vintage, 1971
Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867
1,790 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Part 2 of 3. Part I: here
Translations: Czech, Portuguese
The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961
789 words
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.
1,416 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Part 1 of 3
Translations: Czech, Portuguese
Before getting to the quick of the subject, I would like to make three preliminary remarks:
Alain de Benoist
3,655 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
In his Pariser Tagebücher [Paris Diaries], Ernst Jünger refers to his meetings in German-occupied Paris with Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (for example on October 11th, 1941 and on April 7th, 1942). Drieu was then the editor in chief of La Nouvelle Revue française, published by Gallimard. (more…)
