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Alain de Benoist: O křesťanství

Auguste Migette – Svatý Klement a Graoully (1850). Klement Métský bojuje v římském amfiteátru s (métským drakem) Graoullym. Obraz má symbolizovat vítězství křesťanství nad pohanstvím.

2,339 slov

English original Part 1, Part 2

Poznámka Grega Johnsona:

V roce 2005 poskytl Alain de Benoist rozhovor americkému The Occidental Quarterly, který vyšel pod titulem “European Son: An Interview with Alain de Benoist,” v The Occidental Quarterly, Roč. 5, č. 3 (podzim 2005): str. 7–21. (Mezi březnem a červnem 2018 vyšel na tři části i na našich stránkách: díl první, druhý a třetí.)

The Fascist Dream, Part 3

1,230 words

Czech version here

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 3 of 3

Editor’s Note:

“The Fascist Dream” is the third and final part of Maurice Bardèche’s Qu’est-ce que le fascisme? (What is Fascism?) (Paris: Les Sept Couleurs, 1961).

The purpose of the fascist state is to shape men according to a particular model. Unlike democratic states, fascist states do not hesitate to teach morals. Read more …

Published: October 3, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, education, ethics, fascism, Maurice Bardèche, morality, North American New Right, originals, translations, warrior ethics, What is Fascism? | 3 Responses

The Fascist Dream, Part 2

1,260 words

Czech version here

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 3

Editor’s Note:

“The Fascist Dream” is the third and final part of Maurice Bardèche’s Qu’est-ce que le fascisme? (What is Fascism?) (Paris: Les Sept Couleurs, 1961).

Fascism opposes another image of man to the democratic one, Read more …

Published: October 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, democracy, fascism, freedom, liberalism, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, originals, translations, What is Fascism?, World War II | 3 Responses

The Fascist Dream, Part 1

1,747 words

Czech version here

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 1 of 3

Editor’s Note:

“The Fascist Dream” is the third and final part of Maurice Bardèche’s Qu’est-ce que le fascisme? (What is Fascism?) (Paris: Les Sept Couleurs, 1961).

Dictatorship is perennial. Read more …

Published: October 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, fascism, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, originals, translations, What is Fascism?, World War II | 6 Responses

What is Fascism?

680 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

Editor’s Note:

The following text is the introduction to “Survey of Fascism,” part 1 of Maurice Bardèche’s Qu’est-ce que le fascisme? (What is Fascism?) (Paris: Les Sept Couleurs, 1961).

I am a fascist writer. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, fascism, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, originals, translations, What is Fascism? | 13 Responses

On the Essence of War

Guillaume Faye

1,417 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

We have read all the commentaries, pro and con, on punitive strikes against the Assad regime in Syria. (As of this writing, nothing has happened yet.) Read more …

Published: September 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Guillaume Faye, North American New Right, originals, Syria crisis, translations, war | 9 Responses

Tribute to Dominique Venner

1,429 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations: Czech, Greek

The reasons for living and the reasons for dying are often the same. This was definitely the case for Dominique Venner, whose gesture aimed at bringing his life and death into deep accord. He said he chose to die in the way that was the most honorable in certain circumstances, particularly when words become powerless to describe, to express what we feel. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Albrecht Dürer, articles, Dominique Venner, Homer, North American New Right, on Venner, originals, suicide, translations | 3 Responses

Tribute to Dominique Venner

Guillaume Faye

625 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations Czech, Greek, Spanish

Dominique Venner’s suicide on May 21 at Notre Dame: Marine Le Pen bowed to this gesture of awakening consciousness, which may seem surprising, but it is to her credit. A topless representative of Femen, a group of feminist buffoons, tried to smear his memory the next day, mimicking his suicide in the choir of Notre Dame. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, Guillaume Faye, North American New Right, on Venner, originals, suicide, translations | 5 Responses

Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night

Robert Brasillach

1,654 words

Translated by Greg Johnson*

Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s extraordinary “pamphlets” — Trifles for a Massacre, The School for Cadavers, A Fine Mess — may have caused many admirers to forget that our recently-minted prophet first surfaced in the literary world as a novelist. It seems to me that Journey to the End of the Night — illustrious though it may be, and as unforgettable as the arrival of a cyclone — is still neglected in accounting for the makeup of the prodigious artistic phenomenon that is Céline. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Journey to the End of the Night, literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach, translations | 3 Responses

The Reasons for a Voluntary Death

401 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

I am healthy in body and mind, and I am filled with love for my wife and children. I love life and expect nothing beyond, if not the perpetuation of my race and my mind. Read more …

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, North American New Right, originals, suicide, translations | 60 Responses

The May 26 Protests & Heidegger

554 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

French original; translations: Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish

Editor’s Note:

On May 21, 2013, French author Dominique Venner, whose writings have featured prominently at Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entered the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, placed a sealed envelope on the altar, and shot himself in the head.

Machiavelli & the Conservative Revolution

839 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Borne along by the French Spring, the Conservative Revolution is in fashion. One of its most brilliant theorists deserves to be remembered, even if his name has long been maligned. Indeed it is scarcely flattering to be described as “Machiavellesque” if not “Machiavellian.” It can be seen as an aspersion of cynicism and deceit. Read more …

Published: May 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, translations | Comments closed

How are Revolutions Born?

738 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

German translation here

The birth of revolutions is a fascinating, quite relevant, and little-known topic. Read more …

Published: April 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, North American New Right, originals, revolution, sociology, translations | Comments closed

“They’re All Rotten!”

985 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

This exclamation is probably a bit simplistic, but it sums up the feeling of revulsion spreading today throughout the fair country of France. Read more …

Published: April 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged corruption, Dominique Venner, France, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, translations | Comments closed

Love Nature, Love Life

421 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Greek translation here

Not for an instant do I forget the struggles of our time. Not for an instant do I forget the struggles of the past that made us who we are. Not for an instant do I forget that to exist is not just to dedicate and devote oneself but also to fight. Nor do I forget that life has intense moments and calm moments, joys and cruelties.

Are Marriage & Children Consumer Goods?

956 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

At first, everyone thought that the draft law on homosexual marriage was one of those booby-traps (in crude terms, asshole traps) by which politicians entertain the gallery, unable to act on real issues. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, family, feminism, gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage, North American New Right, originals, translations | 9 Responses

Christmas:
Beauty in Life

395 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. Read more …

Published: December 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, ethics, holidays, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism, translations | 4 Responses

Does Identity Depend on Sovereignty?

Roland (right) receives the sword, Durandal, from the hands of Charlemagne (left)

1,084 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Author’s Note:

I reproduce here in full a seminal article that I published in Le Figaro on February 1, 1999, under the title: “Sovereignty is not Identity.” This article was part of the debate provoked by the Amsterdam Treaty and discussions about the future EU. Read more …

Published: September 7, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, France, identity, language, North American New Right, originals, sovereignty, translations | 12 Responses

Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 2

Robert Steuckers

Ludwig Fahrenkrog, “The Holy Fire”

1,311 words

Part 2 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Paganism of Hamsun and Lawrence

If Hamsun and Lawrence carry out their desire to return to a natural ontology by rejecting rationalist intellectualism, this also implies an in-depth contestation of the Christian message. Read more …

Published: July 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Knut Hamsun, literature, Martin Heidegger, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | 3 Responses

Paganism & Vitalism in
Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 1

Robert Steuckers

Knut Hamsun

2,378 words

Part 1 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Hungarian philologist Akos Doma, educated in Germany and the United States, has published a work of literary interpretation comparing the works of Knut Hamsun and D. H. Lawrence: Read more …

Published: July 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, D. H. Lawrence, Friedrich Schiller, Growth of the Soil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Knut Hamsun, literature, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Robert Steuckers, Romanticism, The Rainbow, translations, vitalism | 1 Response

Letter to My Friends on Identity & Sovereignty

Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer, circa 1512

997 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

When you belong to a nation associated with St. Louis, Philip the Fair, Richelieu, Louis XIV, or Napoleon, a country which in the late 17th century, was called the “great nation” (the most populated and most dangerous), it is cruel to recount the history of repeated setbacks: the aftermath of Waterloo, 1870, 1940, and again in 1962, the ignominious end of French rule in Algeria. A certain pride necessarily suffers. Read more …

Published: July 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, European unity, France, originals, sovereignty, translations | 6 Responses

Guillaume Faye on Nietzsche

Guillaume Faye

2,218 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

Translator’s Note:

The following interview of Guillaume Faye is from the Nietzsche Académie blog. Read more …

Published: July 5, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guillaume Faye, interviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, transhumanism, translations | 13 Responses

Re-Reading Rousseau

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, “Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau” (1712–1778), pastel on paper, 1753

10,607 words

Translated by Greg Johnson*

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is a rather curious case in the history of ideas. After two centuries, he is still the object of truly passionate opinions (you either love him or you hate him), and few authors have given rise to as many contradictory interpretations. He is commonly seen as an inspiration for the French Revolution, but also as an influence on German nationalism. Read more …

Published: June 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, democracy, egalitarianism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, liberalism, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, translations | 4 Responses

Critique of Liberal Ideology

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697

8,580 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translator’s Note:

In “Critique of Liberal Ideology,” Alain de Benoist uses the term “liberalism” in the broad European sense of the term that applies not just to American liberalism but also to American libertarianism and mainstream conservatism, insofar as all three share a common history and common premises. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adam Smith, Alain de Benoist, articles, capitalism, Christianity, F. A. Hayek, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, translations | 8 Responses

Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre

Robert Brasillach

1,827 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translator’s Note:

The following text, written in 1938, was republished in 1943 under the title “Céline the Prophet,” Read more …

Published: May 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North American New Right, Robert Brasillach, the Jewish question, translations, Trifles for a Massacre | 11 Responses

Democracy:
Representative & Participatory

Bust of Pericles bearing the inscription “Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian,” marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 430 BC

2,180 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Representative democracy—essentially liberal and bourgeois—is the most widespread political regime in the Western world today. Read more …

Published: May 24, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, democracy, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, translations | 1 Response

A Brief History of the Idea of Progress

John Gast, “Manifest Destiny,” 1872

3,641 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

The idea of progress seems one of theoretical presuppositions of modernity. One can even regard it, not without reason, as the real “religion of Western civilization.” Read more …

Published: May 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Christianity, North American New Right, philosophy of history, progress., reprints, translations | 7 Responses

Nationalism:
Phenomenology & Critique

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869), “Italia and Germania”

2,087 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

There are probably as many theories of nationalism as there are nationalist theories. It is obviously impossible to give an account of them here. We will not take part in the false quarrel over whether nationalism is a pathological exacerbation of patriotism, Read more …

Published: May 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, nationalism, North American New Right, political philosophy, reprints, translations | 7 Responses

The Unforeseen, the Chinese, & the Favorable Moment