Tag: Edouard Rix

René Guenón už jako šejk Abdalwáhid Jahjá

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Od okultismu k esoterismu

Guénon se narodil 15. listopadu 1886 do silně katolické rodiny z města Blois. V roce 1904, po vykonání pouti do Lurd, odešel studovat do Paříže. Ve studiích však postupoval jen velice zdráhavě: svou licence získal až ve svých devětadvaceti letech. O tři roky později pak neuspěl při agrégation z filozofie, když neobhájil doktorskou práci „Všeobecný úvod do studia hinduistických doktrín“. (more…)

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Pentru ce luptăm noi? Orice soldat politic trebuie să-şi pună această întrebare. Cu toate că poate părea contradictoriu, suntem înclinaţi în a răspunde că luptăm pentru Tradiţie şi Revoluţie.

Tradiţia 

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Trans. anonymous, revised by Greg Johnson

“I hate this book. I hate it with all my heart. It gave me glory, that paltry thing called fame, but it is also the source of all my miseries. (more…)

Jean Thiriart, 1922–1992

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Ревний читач Гоббса, Макіавеллі та Паретто, бельгієць Жан Тіріар (1922–1992), засновник пан’європейської організації «Молода Європа» («Jeune Europe») був теоретиком Великої Європи від Ґолвея до Владивостока. (more…)

Martin Luther

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Many authors distinguish between, on the one hand Catholicism, which is supposed to be a negative Christianity incarnated by Rome and an anti-Germanic instrument, and, on the other hand, Protestantism, which is supposed to be a positive Christianity emancipated from the Roman papacy and accepting traditional Germanic values. (more…)

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Karl Haushofer’s Kontinentalblock  (more…)

William Blake, “Behemoth and Leviathan”

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Translated by Greg Johnson

“Nur Meer und Erde haben hier Gewicht.”
(Only sea and land matter here.)
—Goethe

This article is less concerned with geopolitics than with thalassopolitics, (more…)

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Za co vlastně bojujeme? Každý politický voják si tuto otázku jednou bude nucen položit. Ačkoli to možná někomu může připadnout protikladné, obvykle odvětíme, že bojujeme ve jménu Tradice a Revoluce. (more…)

Untitled installation sometimes known as ”Judd’s Cubes” – Donald Judd

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Translated by Greg Johnson

In 1917, in Die Krisis der europäischen Kultur (The Crisis of European Culture), Rudolf Pannwitz described the Nietzschean Superman as “postmodern.” The concept then underwent a long eclipse before re-appearing in philosophical debate in 1979. (more…)

Jean Thiriart, 1922–1992

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Vášnivý čtenář Hobbese, Machiavelliho a Pareta, Belgičan Jean Thiriart (1922-1992), zakladatel panevropského hnutí Jeune Europe (Mladá Evropa) byl zastáncem teorie Velké Evropy od Galway až po Vladivostok. (more…)

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I owe Robert Steuckers many debts of thanks, one of them for introducing me to the work of Edouard Rix, surely one of the most concise and compelling of European New Right authors, four of whose works I have translated for Counter-Currents/North American New Right. Click here for a complete list.

Enjoy!

Plato, detail of Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” 1509–1510

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Translated by Greg Johnson

In 1938, Georges Dumézil discovered, the existence of a veritable Indo-European “ideology,” a specific mental structure manifesting a common conception of the world. He writes:

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René Guénon, 1886–1951

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Czech version here

Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

This essay and the one that follows are presented in commemoration of René Guénon’s birth on November 15, 1886.

On January 7th, 1951, the Frenchman René Guénon, one of the principal representatives of Traditional thought in the 20thcentury, died in Cairo. (more…)