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Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Mountain Lake in the Morning, 1823.

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Among those on the Right who address man’s relationship to the rest of the natural world, one finds a variety of approaches. There are the anthropocentric conservationists, who promote the “wise use” or prudent management of natural resources for future generations. There are the Social Darwinist varieties, Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agape, articles, Christianity, constructivism, ecology, emanationism, environmentalism, epistemology, German Idealism, hierarchy, industrialization, integral ecology, metaphysics, modernity, monism, nature, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, originals, panentheism, philosophy, Platonism, postmodernism, primordial metaphysics, Sophia perennis, Traditionalism, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Seven

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

With the gulls now retreating, Mitch and Melanie leave the Tides restaurant and make their way up the hill to Annie’s house to retrieve Cathy. All is deathly quiet. As they approach the schoolhouse, they see that the crows are back and perched all over. “Look, the crows again!” Melanie says breathlessly. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, class conflict, complacency, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, spirituality, The Birds, the bourgeoisie, the uncanny, tribalism, women | 4 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Six

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

(Editor’s Note: Mr. Hawthorne apologizes for repeatedly announcing the conclusion of this series. He is making it up as he goes along.)

For the last two installments, I have been principally occupied with an exposition of the ideas of the later Heidegger, and with a Heideggerean interpretation of The Birds. There is much more to be said, Read more …

Published: June 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, horror, hubris, Martin Heidegger, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, The Birds, the uncanny | 3 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Five

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

In the last installment, I began to explore the possibility that The Birds can be understood as an “existentialist” parable. I argued that the film depicts what Heidegger calls das Ereignis (the event): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Read more …