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

Greg Johnson

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, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

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Our Marx, Only Better:
Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism

Greg Johnson

Giambattista Vico

5,481 words

Author’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of my speech “Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” given at The London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. I have heavily edited it, rewriting it in places. I want to thank Jez Turner and The London Forum team for a memorable event.

Today I’m going to talk about a topic that’s somewhat esoteric. Read more …

Published: April 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Darwinism, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, progress., religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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The Fallacy of Progress

Kerry Bolton

2,835 words

Our “progressive” obsessions for change neglect to consider consequences. Change is demanded for the sake of a fad or a slogan: “equality,” “democracy,” “reproductive rights” . . . Even a word of caution is damned as “reactionary,” “old-fashioned,” or “fascist.” Traditions, customs, and beliefs are regarded as being as transient as the planned obsolescence of computers. Read more …

Published: October 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis Carrel, articles, C. G. Jung, Kerry Bolton, North American New Right, originals, progressivism | 7 Responses

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Poznámky k nihilismu

Greg Johnson

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, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, 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

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Johann Gottfried Herder on Music & Nationalism

Alex Graham

2,495 words

Johann Gottfried Herder
Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism
Translated and edited by Philip V. Bohlman
Oakland: University of California Press, 2017

Johann Gottfried Herder was an 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, translator, and critic. He wrote on many subjects: political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of history, metaphysics, linguistics, philology, art, religion, mythology, and music. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, book reviews, ethnic identity, ethnonationalism, Johann Gottfried von Herder, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Notes sur le nihilisme

Greg Johnson

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, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, 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

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La philosophie de Collin Cleary

Greg Johnson

5,970 words

English original here

Note de l’auteur :

L’essai suivant est mon Introduction éditoriale à la nouvelle anthologie de Collin Cleary What is a Rune? and Other Essays [Qu’est-ce qu’une rune ? et autres essais] à paraître chez Counter-Currents.

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Notas sobre el Nihilismo

Greg Johnson

3,318 words

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, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, 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

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Notes on Nihilism

Greg Johnson

3,009 words

Translations: French, Spanish, Czech

It is often said that nihilism is one of the leading characteristics of the modern age, but what is nihilism? Nihilism means something like the “death” of God, the denial of objective meaning and value, the erasure of moral distinctions and hierarchies, the dissolution of a common world into individual perspectives, and the dissolution of a common culture into subjective “given preferences.” Read more …

Published: February 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Junger, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, myth, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Søren Kierkegaard, Star Trek, technology, The Borg, values, will | 18 Responses

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Archäofuturistische Fiktion
Frank Herberts Dune

Greg Johnson

1,248 words

English original here

Wenn Science-Fiction typischerweise „progressiv“ und Fantasy-Literatur „rückwärtsgewandt“ ist, dann brauchen wir eine dritte Kategorie für die sechs Dune-Bücher von Frank Herbert (1920-1986) – gar nicht zu reden von George Lucas’ sechs Star Wars-Filmen –, die futuristische Sci-Fi-Elemente mit den archaischen Werten und magischen Welten der Fantasy verbinden.

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Race & the Myth of the Origins of Rome

Julius Evola

2,511 words

Translated by Cologero

In his Life of Romulus (I,8), Plutarch writes:

Rome would not have risen to such power had it not had, in any way, a divine origin, Read more …

Published: December 12, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Aryans, F. W. J. Schelling, Indo-Europeans, Julius Evola, mythology, North American New Right, race, reprints, Rome, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

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Greg Johnson Interviews Mark Dyal, Part 2

Mark Dyal

8,871 words

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by Lee and Donna Hancock of Part 2 of Greg Johnson’s interview of Mark Dyal, which you can listen to here. Please post any corrections below as comments.

GJ: So Mark, you did your doctoral dissertation on the Ultras. Can you tell me a bit about the basic thesis of the dissertation and the things that you’ve studied, the things that you discovered? Read more …

Published: December 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anthropology, fascism, Friedrich Nietsche, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, interviews, Italy, Julius Evola, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, ultras, violence, vitalism | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 94
Vico & the New Right

Greg Johnson

54:49 / 99 words

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This is my lecture “Giambattista Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” delivered at the London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, cyclical history, Darwinism, duty, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, myth, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, podcasts, progress., religion, the Counter-Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism, warrior ethics | 5 Responses

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The London Forum

Greg Johnson

1,234 words

On Saturday, September 27, 2014, I was one of four speakers at a meeting of the London Forum in central London. More than 70 people were present.

The London Forum and similar events, such as The End of the Present World conference, are models of organization and execution. Read more …

Published: October 3, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adrian Davies, Bain Dewitt, cyclical history, Darwinism, Greg Johnson, Mark Weber, news item, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Traditionalism | 27 Responses

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Archeofuturist Fiction
Frank Herbert’s Dune

Greg Johnson

1,610 words

German translation here

If science fiction is quintessentially “progressive” and fantasy literature is “reactionary,” then we need a third category for the six Dune books by Frank Herbert (1920–1986)—not to mention George Lucas’ six Star Wars movies—which combine futuristic, sci-fi elements with the archaic values and magical universes of fantasy.

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The Philosophy of Collin Cleary

Greg Johnson

5,335 words

French translation here

Author’s Note:

The following essay is my Editor’s Introduction to Collin Cleary’s new anthology What is a Rune? and Other Essays, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 91
The Pursuit of Happiness
Self-Actualization, Part 2

Greg Johnson

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533–1592

40:58 / 148 words

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophies East and West,” dealing with different conceptions of the good life. Read more …

Published: February 12, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, ethics, evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, living well, Michel de Montaigne, nihilism, philosophy, podcasts, self-actualization, The Pursuit of Happiness | 2 Responses

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Aspects of Racial Doctrine

Julius Evola

1,845 words

Giambattista Vico

Editor’s Note:

In this text, Evola distinguishes the race of the body (biological race–race as such, in my opinion), the race of the soul (which I would call non-hereditary character types, shaped by culture, ideas, and education), and race of the spirit, which has to do with “vertical,” “superhistorical” heredity, i.e., man’s alleged descent from superhuman or divine beings. It is unfortunate that Evola speaks disparagingly of evolution as a “myth” — only to replace it with genuine myths Read more …

Published: October 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, cyclical history, devolution, evolution, Julius Evola, North American New Right, philosophy of history, race, reprints, Traditionalism, translations | 4 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 23
Greg Johnson Interviews Mark Dyal, Part 2

Counter-Currents Radio

67:57 / 150 words

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Transcript here

Dr. Mark Dyal is an American scholar and writer. He has an M.A. in black studies and a Ph.D. in anthropology. Read more …

Published: September 28, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, fascism, Friedrich Nietsche, Georges Sorel, Greg Johnson, Italy, Julius Evola, Mark Dyal, podcasts, ultras, violence, vitalism | 26 Responses

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Against Nihilism:
Julius Evola’s “Traditionalist” Critique of Modernity

Thomas F. Bertonneau

Julius Evola

5,326 words

With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898–1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the limitations – the contradictions and inconsistencies–in Nietzsche’s thinking.

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Spengler:
An Introduction to His Life & Ideas

Keith Stimely

4,116 words

Oswald Spengler was born in Blankenburg (Harz) in central Germany in 1880, the eldest of four children, and the only boy. His mother’s side of the family was quite artistically bent. His father, who had originally been a mining technician and came from a long line of mineworkers, was an official in the German postal bureaucracy, and he provided his family with a simple but comfortable middle class home.