Tag Archives: Ernst Junger

The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

3,554 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

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Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 2

Max Weber

4,535 words

Part 1 here

The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Present Age

Not only does Strauss claim that historicism is a healthy reaction to the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern world, in the next section of his essay, he also attributes this bankruptcy to non-historicist causes.

First, Strauss talks about Max Weber’s Learning and Science as Vocation. He specifically objects to Weber’s claim that reason cannot speak about the ultimate aims of life: Read more …

Published: May 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservative revolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

The Conservative Revolution & Right-Wing Anarchism

Olena Semenyaka

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The following is a transcript of an informal talk given by Olena Semenyaka during the Etnofutur III conference in Tallinn, Estonia on February 23, 2019. The transcript was made by Synchronistic Child. The video of the talk is also included here (click on the CC link for subtitles).

Max Stirner:
Marxist, Meme Master, or Mentor?
Part Two

James J. O'Meara

4,274 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

C. Max Stirner: Nineteenth-Century Shitlord

But we can sharpen our focus a bit more; Stirner’s contemporary popularity and perceived relevance may derive from a more specific connection. Since few outside of a small, hate-filled and self-inflated academic clique thinks Marx is “hip,” I’d like to keep the focus on Stirner as a Dissident Right harbinger.

Published: April 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, book reviews, Dissident Right, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Max Stirner, meme magick, North American New Right, originals, the alt right | 4 Responses

The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

3,553 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

Video of the Day
“Ernst Jünger, 102 Years in the Heart of Europe”
(Swedish documentary with English subtitles)

Video of the Day

32 words / 57:32

A Swedish documentary, with English subtitles, about the life and ideas of Ernst Jünger, including extensive interviews with him that were made only a year prior to his death at age 102. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, conservative revolution, First World War, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, Second World War, Third Reich, video of the day | 1 Response

Remembering Ernst Jünger:
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

405 words

Ernst Jünger was born on this day in 1895.

In commemoration, we wish to draw your attention to the following works published on this site.

First, there are three pieces by Jünger himself:

Published: March 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | 1 Response

Mark Sedgwick’s Key Thinkers of the Radical Right

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Mark Sedgwick, ed.
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Mark Sedgwick is an English scholar of Western Esotericism and Islam. He is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Carl Schmitt, Daniel Friberg, European New Right, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Jack Donovan, Jared Taylor, Julius Evola, Kevin MacDonald, Martin Heidegger, Mencius Moldbug, metapolitics, neoreaction, New Right, NRX, Oswald Spengler, Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Rene Guénon, Richard Spencer, Samuel Francis, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 24 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 225
Now for My Next Writer . . .

Michael Walker

5,673 words / 36:48

To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” To subscribe to the CC podcast RSS feed, click here.

Tarmo Kunnas
Faszination eines Trugbildes: Die europäische Intelligenz und die faschistischeVersuchung 1919-1945
Brienna Verlag, 2017

Against Escapism

Eordred

1,511 words

Escapism is one of the major issues plaguing young white men. Virtually all of them are gamers of some sort. If not a gamer, he typically immerses himself in board games, or else fantasy and science fiction novels and television series. The more disciplined and intelligent among us might use this as a springboard toward developing some useful skills. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Éordred, escapism, heroism, masculinity, modernity, North American New Right, originals, video games | 14 Responses

The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

3,545 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, commemorations, conservative revolution, First World War, John Morgan, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, reprints, Second World War, Third Reich | 4 Responses

Muž dvacátého století: vzpomínáme na Ernsta Jüngera (1895-1998)

2,860 slov

English original here; Hungarian translation here

Kdybych mohl být kýmkoliv z dvacátého století, ani na vteřinu bych neváhal s volbou Ernsta Jüngera. Tento muž totiž ve svém vymezeném čase vyzkoušel takřka všechno a napnul hranice toho, čeho může jednotlivec v životě dosáhnout, až na úplné maximum. Jeho nesmírně dlouhý život (zemřel měsíc před svými 103. narozeninami) překlenul Kaiserreich, německou revoluci, Výmarskou republiku, Třetí říši, Spolkovou republiku Německo a konečně v poslední dekádě jeho života také sjednocené Německo – a v každém z těchto období aktivně působil. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, commemorations, conservative revolution, First World War, in Czech, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, reprints, Second World War, Third Reich | Leave a comment

Video of the Day
“Ernst Jünger, 102 Years in the Heart of Europe”
(Swedish documentary with English subtitles)

Video of the Day

32 words / 57:32

A Swedish documentary, with English subtitles, about the life and ideas of Ernst Jünger, including extensive interviews with him that were made only a year prior to his death at age 102.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ju5HFoD20U

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, conservative revolution, First World War, national bolshevism, North American New Right, psychedelic drugs, Second World War, Third Reich, video of the day | 1 Response

Remembering Ernst Jünger:
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

405 words

Ernst Jünger was born on this day in 1895.

In commemoration, we wish to draw your attention to the following works published on this site.

First, there are three pieces by Jünger himself:

Published: March 29, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | 2 Responses

Poznámky k nihilismu

3,758 slov

English original here

Často se říká, že nihilismus je jednou z nejvýraznějších charakteristik naší moderní doby – co to ale vlastně nihilismus vůbec je? Nihilismus znamená cosi jako „smrt“ Boha, popření objektivního smyslu a hodnot, rozostření morálních kategorií a hierarchií, rozklad společného světa na individuální náhledy i společné kultury do subjektivních „osobních preferencí.“ Read more …

Published: March 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, in Czech, myth, nihilism, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Leave a comment

Fascism, Futurism, & Aviation

Alex Graham

1,663 words

Fernando Esposito
Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

The British political theorist Roger Griffin has argued that the defining characteristic of fascist movements is a central myth of national rebirth, or palingenetic ultranationalism. His study of fascism (The Nature of Fascism) sparked controversy upon its publication because it diverged from the consensus at the time that fascist movements were purely reactionary and conservative in character; Read more …

Published: February 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, aviation, book reviews, fascism, fascist art, Filippo Marinetti, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italian futurism, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

The Dark Rebirth:
Report on the Asgardsrei 2017 Festival & Pact of Steel Conference (Kiev, Ukraine, 16–17.12.2017)

Jarosław Ostrogniew

3,751 words

Asgardsrei Fest is currently one of the best known and most uncompromising events in the European black metal scene. The spirit of the festival is a voice of dissent against two trends of degeneration in black metal today.

Published: December 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Metal, Goatmoon, Jarosław Ostrogniew, M8l8th, metapolitics, North American New Right, Olena Semenyaka, originals, Russia, Ukraine | 14 Responses

Masterpieces of Aryan Literature 2
Ernst Jünger’s The Glass Bees

Quintilian

992 words

Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) was a prominent member of the German nationalist Conservative Revolutionary movement of the 1920s that was opposed to the feckless Weimar Republic. The son of a wealthy chemist, Jünger rejected the staid bourgeois world of his upbringing and instead sought adventure wherever he could find it. Running away from home and joining the French Foreign Legion while a minor, Jünger was sent to Algeria and Morocco. Through the intercession of his father, Jünger got out of the Legion in time to join the German Army at the outbreak of World War I. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, dystopian fiction, Masterpieces of Aryan Literature, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, science fiction | 1 Response

Férfi a XX. században
Ernst Jünger emlékezete 1895. március 29. — 1998. február 17.

English original; Czech version

2,721 words

Ha választhatnék, hogy melyik XX. századi személyiség életét éljem újra, nem kellene sokáig gondolkodnom. Ernst Jünger szinte mindent átélt, amit a században lehetett, és elment a végső határig abban, amit valaki egy földi pályafutás során elérhet. Egy hónappal a százharmadik születésnapja előtt halt meg – elképesztően hosszú életkora átfogta a Német Császárság, az I. világháború utáni német forradalom, a Weimari Köztársaság, a Harmadik Birodalom és a Német Szövetségi Köztársaság korszakát. Végül élete utolsó évtizedében láthatta az újraegyesült Németországot is, és mindvégig aktívan tevékenykedett.

The Man of the Twentieth Century:
Remembering Ernst Jünger,
March 29, 1895-February 17, 1998

3,524 words

Hungarian translation here; Czech translation here

If I could choose to be anyone from the twentieth century, I would not hesitate for a moment to pick Ernst Jünger. The man did just about everything it was possible to do in his time, and stretched the limits of what one individual can accomplish in a lifetime to their breaking point. His incredible lifespan alone (he died a month shy of his 103rd birthday) spanned the Kaiserreich, the German Revolution, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany, and finally, reunited Germany in his final decade – Read more …

Published: March 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, articles, commemorations, conservative revolution, First World War, John Morgan, national bolshevism, North American New Right, originals, psychedelic drugs, Second World War, Third Reich | 12 Responses

Remembering Ernst Jünger:
March 29, 1895–February 17, 1998

274 words

Ernst Jünger was born on this day in 1895.

In commemoration, we wish to draw your attention to the following works published on this site.

First, there are three pieces by Jünger himself:

Published: March 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right | Leave a comment

Hitler’s Reading Habits

Guillaume Durocher

4,508 words

Timothy Ryback
Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
London: Vintage, 2010

I want to thank the commenters who have reacted to my previous articles, providing many useful insights and bits of information. This is the kind of reactive, collaborative, or even “crowd-sourced” discovery of history which was indeed impossible before the blessed age of the Internet. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, Thomas Carlyle | 4 Responses

The French Lobby Rises:
Anti-French Rapper Purged from Verdun Commemoration

Guillaume Durocher

1,325 words

The degeneration of European Man is visibly evident in the state of our so-called elites. They too have grown terribly soft, culturally ignorant, and ultimately wholly without honor. One sign of this is the disgusting decline in the intellectual and moral quality of official culture, including commemorations of major events.

Consider the following. In 1979, the authorities invited no less a figure than the German writer Ernst Jünger to commemorate that titanic fratricidal struggle which was the Battle of Verdun. Read more …

Published: May 13, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Guillaume Durocher, identitarianism, North American New Right, originals, rap, white activism, World War I | 7 Responses

Yukio Mishima

Jonathan Bowden

8,859 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture in London on December 10, 2011. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available.

Mishima’s life was dedicated to a return of the spirit of the samurai and a belief in Yamamoto Jōchō’s book Hagakure, which is partly the 17th-century bible of samurai morality Read more …

Published: October 28, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Japan, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, Samurai, suicide, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima | 10 Responses

Céline:
Literary Giant & Racial Nationalist

Dominique Venner

4,239 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following is taken from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 207-16. The title is editorial.

The premonition of decadence was strong with [the writer Alphonse de] Châteaubriant, but never reached the apocalyptic fury of a Céline, Read more …

Published: October 15, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, fascism, France, German occupied France, Guillaume Durocher, Histoire de la Collaboration, Jean-Paul Sartre, Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, socialism, the Jewish question, the Third Reich, translations, Trifles for a Massacre, World War II, Zionism | 3 Responses

Notes sur le nihilisme

3,263 words

English original here

On dit souvent que le nihilisme est l’une des principales caractéristiques de l’âge moderne, mais qu’est-ce que le nihilisme ? Le nihilisme signifie quelque chose comme la « mort » de Dieu, la négation du sens et de la valeur objectifs, l’effacement des distinctions morales et des hiérarchies, la dissolution d’un monde commun en perspectives individuelles, et la dissolution d’une culture commune en « préférences données » subjectives. Read more …

Published: September 23, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, myth, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Leave a comment

“Тар“ на Уиндам Люис: Упражнение по дясна психология

Jonathan Bowden

949 думи

English original here

Романът “Тар“(Tarr) на Уиндам Люис (анаграма едновременно на “art”(изкуство) и “rat”(плъх) излиза за пръв път през 1915 г., докато Великата война бушува и остава едно от големите упражнения по психология на хладнокръвието. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, Ayn Rand, book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Bulgarian, in translation, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, psychology, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

Notas sobre el Nihilismo

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English original here

Frecuentemente se dice que el nihilismo es una de las características de la era moderna pero, ¿qué es el nihilismo? El nihilismo significa algo así como la “muerte” de Dios, la negación del valor y del significado objetivo, la borradura de las distinciones morales y jerárquicas, la disolución de un mundo común a las perspectivas individuales, y la disolución de una cultura común a las “preferencias dadas” subjetivas. Read more …

Published: February 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, myth, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | Leave a comment

Notes on Nihilism