Francis Parker Yockey
Imperium: The Philosophy of History & Politics
Edited by Greg Johnson
Introduction by Willis Carto
Centennial Edition Publishing, 2023
Approximately 600 pages
The final volume of the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Works is Yockey’s magnum opus, Imperium: The Philosophy of History & Politics, which you can pre-order in two formats:
- Hardcover, limited edition of 200 numbered copies: $60 (add $5 for US postage, $40 for postage to the rest of the world). Release date: 2023
- Paperback: $30 (add $10 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East). Release date: 2023
Note: If you wish to collect all three volumes in the limited edition, and ensure that they all bear the same number, you can order the whole set. The third volume, The World in Flames, is now in print and shipping. The cost of the three-volume set, including postage:
- US customers: $170
- The rest of the world: $250 (sorry, but it will be very expensive to ship the hardcover of Imperium outside the United States)
The easiest way to pre-order Imperium is by e-check. All you need is your checkbook.
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About Imperium:
In a blaze of inspiration and without notes, Francis Parker Yockey wrote Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics in Brittas Bay, Ireland in the winter and early spring of 1948. Later that year, Imperium was published in two volumes by Westeuropa Press in London under the pen name Ulick Varange. Drawing upon the ideas of Oswald Spengler and Carl Schmitt, and dedicated to “The Hero of the Second World War” (Adolf Hitler), Imperium offers a philosophy of history, culture, and politics, as well as a synoptic overview of Second World War and the post-war world, to argue that the destiny of Western Civilization will be realized only by the creation of a pan-European imperial order. Although reviled by many National Socialists and fascists for its Spenglerian rejection of biological race, Imperium was praised by such luminaries as Julius Evola and Revilo P. Oliver and has exercised a profound influence on the imperialist strand of post-war European identitarianism, including such figures as Jean Thiriart and Guillaume Faye. The Centennial Edition of Imperium is based on the original 1948 edition, reprints Willis Carto’s Introduction to the Noontide Press edition of 1963, extensively annotates Yockey’s text (including his debts to Spengler and Schmitt), and features a detailed Index. The limited-edition hardcover includes an appendix of photographs of Francis Parker Yockey, most of them never before published.
CONTENTS
Editor’s Preface by Greg Johnson
Introduction by Willis Carto
VOLUME 1
FOREWORD
I. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORICAL OUTLOOK
Perspective
The Two Aspects of History
The Relativity of History
The Meaning of Facts
The Demise of the Linear View of History
The Structure of History
Pessimism
The Civilization-Crisis
Darwinism
Marxism
Freudianism
The Scientific-Technical World-Outlook
The Imperative of Our Age
II. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY POLITICAL OUTLOOK
Introduction
The Nature of Politics
The War-Politics Symbiosis
The Laws of Totality and Sovereignty
The Pluralistic State
The Law of Constancy of Inter-Organismic Power
The Law of Constancy of Intra-Organismic Power
The Political Pluriverse
League of Nations
The Inner Aspect of the Law of Sovereignty
Political Organisms and War
The Law of Political Plenum
The Law of Protection and Obedience
Internationale
The Two Political Anthropologies
Liberalism
Democracy
Communism
Association and Dissociation of Forms of Thought and Action
III. CULTURAL VITALISM (A) CULTURE HEALTH
Introduction
The Articulation of a Culture
Tradition and Genius
Genius
Genius and the Age of Absolute Politics
Race, People, Nation, State
Subjective Meaning of Race
Horizontal Race vs. Vertical Race
Race and Policy
People
Nation
Nation and History
Nation and Rationalism
Nation in the Twentieth Century
State
VOLUME 2
IV. CULTURAL VITALISM (B) CULTURE PATHOLOGY
Culture Pathology
Culture Parasitism
Culture Distortion
Culture Retardation as a Form of Culture Distortion
Culture Distortion Arising from Parasitic Activity
V. AMERICA
Introduction
The Origins of America
The American Ideology
The War of Secession, 1861-1865
The American Practice of Government
The History of American Imperialism
American Imperialism in the Age of Annihilation-Wars
The American Revolution of 1933
World-Outlook
The Negro in America
Culture-Retardation in America
Propaganda
The Conduct of American Foreign Affairs from 1933
The Future of America
VI. THE WORLD SITUATION
The Political World
The First World War
The Second World War
Russia
Japan
America
The Terror
Abyss
Imperium
Index
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) is one of America’s foremost anti-liberal thinkers. Yockey studied at Georgetown University, De Paul Law School, and Notre Dame Law School, where he received his degree in law cum laude in 1941. In addition to The Enemy of Europe, Yockey is the author of Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (2 vols., 1948) and The Proclamation of London (1949). But Yockey was not just a political theorist. He was a political actor. In 1948, he founded the European Liberation Front. His ultimate aim was a unified Europe, free to pursue its destiny without the domination of outside powers. Using a bewildering array of fake passports and identities, Yockey traveled the world building alliances with National Socialists, fascists, Arab nationalists, Marxists, and Third World liberation movements. He committed suicide on the night of June 16–17, 1960, in the San Francisco Jail, where he was being held on charges of passport fraud.
Greg Johnson, Ph.D., is the General Editor of the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Works. He is Editor-in-Chief of Counter-Currents Publishing and the Counter-Currents webzine. He is the author of White Identity Politics (2020) and many other books.
Willis Carto (1926–2015) was an American national populist publisher and political organizer as well as a leading advocate of Francis Parker Yockey’s ideas. Carto visited Yockey in the San Francisco Jail six days before his suicide and published the first widely distributed edition of Imperium (Sausalito, Cal.: Noontide Press, 1963), for which he authored the Introduction which is reprinted here.
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