Tag: Friedrich Nietzsche

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When an unsuspecting member of the public waddles into the Royal Academy of the Arts expecting, perhaps, to find some edifying emblem of beauty and power—only to be confronted by the likes of Damien Hirst licking his lips over a decaying ram carcass in a glass box, Grayson Perry in the quasi-paedophile drag of a 13 year old American schoolgirl, and Marina Abramović sitting abstemiously in the same plastic chair for over nine hours—it is perhaps worth asking with him what has happened to modern art, without resorting to insult his however mediocre cultural intelligence. (more…)

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Heidegger on a country path, 1966.

Part 13 of 15 (Read all parts here)

The Will is Evil

The foregoing may lead the reader to ask whether Heidegger’s negative will, which gives rise to the metaphysics of presence, is evil. It is difficult to escape this conclusion, especially given that, historically, it issues in the present “dispensation of being,” which is das Gestell (“enframing”), modern technological civilization’s metaphysical conviction that all that exists, including humanity, is nothing more than raw material for exploitation. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020.

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Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online.

Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the North American New Right because of his contributions to the philosophy of history, culture, and religion.

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Chapter 1 begins here

CHAPTER 10
THE RETURN OF THE QUEEN

A Quiet Homecoming

O what can it mean
To a daydream believer
Or a homecoming queen?
The Monkees, Daydream Believer (more…)

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CHAPTER 9
AUTOGNOSIS

Know thyself 2.0

The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of your own mind.
Epictetus

“Know thyself” was famously inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and seen by Socrates’ friend Caepheron on a visit there to enquire as to whether Socrates was the wisest of men. Socrates himself tells the story at his trial, and Plato’s Apology represents one of the greatest acts of self-knowing in the history of literature. (more…)

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Chapter 8
ICE AND HIGH MOUNTAINS

Nietzsche as Meta-philosopher

[M]any disapprove of all philosophers, because their aims are not ours; they are those whom I call “strangers to us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (more…)

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Introduction: The Peak of the Metaphysics of German Idealism

In 1936, Martin Heidegger delivered a lecture course on F. W. J. Schelling’s 1809 treatise Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom, which scholars often refer to simply as the Freiheitsschrift (Freedom Essay).[1] (more…)

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CHAPTER 1
GOING UNDERGROUND

Who killed philosophy?

Philosophy bestows this boon upon us; it makes us joyful in the very sight of death, strong and brave no matter in what state the body may be, cheerful and never failing though the body fail us.
Seneca, letter to Lucilius. (more…)

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This is the preface to a book I started writing five years ago when it occurred to me that philosophy in the West is, if not dead, then certainly dying. The book is titled Unmourned Funeral: The Welcome Death of White Western Philosophy. Philosophy is my subject. In a way, it’s what I do. My doctorate is in philosophy, and as I advance in years I find myself spending more and more time reading it to the exclusion of other distractions. (more…)

Socrates: a good 5 cent cigar

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Part 12 of 14

(Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 13 here)

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Książkę Grega Johnsona Nowej Prawicy przeciw Starej Prawicy można kupić tutaj.

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English original here; also Spanish

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Wprowadzenie

Biali nacjonaliści muszą radzić sobie z holocaustem tak, jak musimy radzić sobie z całym problemem żydowskim.

Jałowym jest skupianie się tylko na obronie interesów białych i ignorowanie Żydów po prostu dlatego, że Żydzi nie odwdzięczą się za tę przysługę. Może nie wybrałeś sobie Żydów na wrogów, ale oni wybrali już ciebie. (more…)

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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English original here, Estonian, French, Spanish

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„Czy możemy się po prostu dogadać?” – Rodney King

Krótka książka Carla Schmitta Pojęcie polityczności (1932) jest jednym z najważniejszych dzieł dwudziestowiecznej filozofii politycznej[1].

Głównym celem Pojęcia polityczności jest obrona polityki przed utopijnymi próbami jej porzucenia. Anty-polityczny utopizm zawiera wszystkie formy liberalizmu, jak również międzynarodowego socjalizmu, globalnego kapitalizmu, anarchizmu oraz pacyfizmu: w skrócie – wszystkie polityczne filozofie, których celem jest uniwersalny porządek, w którym porzucono wszelki konflikt. (more…)

Heinrich Füger, “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind,” 1817

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Follows “Goethe’s Prometheus”

Hier sitz ich, forme Menschen
Nach meinem Bilde,
Ein Geschlecht, das mir gleich sei,
Zu leiden, zu weinen,
Zu genießen und zu freuen sich,
Und dein nicht zu achten,
Wie ich! (more…)