Tag Archives: Martin Heidegger

Did Heidegger Say the Holocaust Was Jewish “Self-Annihilation”?

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The Charge

One of the most sensational charges against Heidegger is that he claimed that the Holocaust was the “self-annihilation” (Selbstvernichtung) of the Jews. This charge was first made by Italian philosophy professor Donatella di Cesare in an article in Corriere Della Sere on February 9, 2015: “Heidegger: ‘Jews Self-Destructed’: New Black Notebooks Reveal Philosopher’s Shocking Take on Shoah.”[1] Read more …

Published: September 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donatella di Cesare, Greg Johnson, modernity, originals, philosophy, the holocaust, the Jewish question | 17 Responses

Now Available!
Graduate School with Heidegger

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Greg Johnson is publishing yet another new book:

Greg Johnson
Graduate School with Heidegger
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2020
220 pages

There are three formats for Graduate School with Heidegger: Read more …

Published: September 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, Edmund Husserl, ethnonationalism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Julius Evola, metaphysics, modernity, National Socialism, nationalism, phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy, Richard Polt, Ronald Beiner, technology | 8 Responses

Anonymous Heidegger Scholar

Foreword to Graduate School with Heidegger
by an Anonymous Heidegger Scholar

You can order Greg Johnson’s Graduate School with Heidegger here.

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What a gift it is, to have this collection of Greg Johnson’s essays on Heidegger available together in a real book, on real paper! All sorts of readers will appreciate Johnson’s lively, unpretentious, and accessible presentations of Heidegger’s thought, both those who have never read a word of Heidegger—and may thus stand in need of good reasons for doing so—and those, like me, who have been poring over the German philosopher’s writings for years now.

Johnson gives due credit to the best academic commentators on Heidegger, Read more …

Published: August 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 2 Responses

The Gods of the Forest

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This is what I believe:

“That I am I.”

“That my soul is a dark forest.”

“That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.” Read more …

Published: August 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Edmund Husserl, Greg Johnson, language, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, prejudice | 11 Responses

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

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Mitch gathers Melanie’s still unconscious body into his arms and carries her down the stairs. Lydia walks ahead of him, carrying an oil lamp. “Oh, poor thing! Poor thing!” she says. Her resentment toward Melanie now completely gone, she feels only pity. Lydia goes to fetch bandages, as Mitch lays Melanie on the living room sofa. He asks Cathy to get some brandy, Read more …

Published: July 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, Alfred Hitchcock, articles, being, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, family, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds | 16 Responses

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

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

At first, we hear the sound of birds singing. The sound is pretty and harmless. Is it the lovebirds in the kitchen? Then we hear fluttering and flapping. This grows louder and louder and the pretty singing of a moment before is replaced by angry cawing and screeching. It is one of the most interesting scenes in the entire film. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, being, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, feminism, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Birds, the uncanny | 2 Responses

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

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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, knowledge, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, spirituality, The Birds, the bourgeoisie, the uncanny, tribalism, women | 4 Responses

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

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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, knowledge, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, The Birds, the uncanny | 3 Responses

Richard Polt’s Time & Trauma

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Richard Polt
Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

Richard Polt is one of the most distinguished and prolific Heidegger scholars active today. He is the author of one of the best introductory books on Heidegger, Heidegger: An Introduction, as well as a commentary on one of Heidegger’s most difficult texts, The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy.”[1] Read more …

Published: June 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, liberalism, National Socialism, New Right, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, political philosophy | 5 Responses

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

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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 …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, apocalypse, articles, being, complacency, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, environmentalism, hubris, knowledge, modernism, mortality, nature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds, the uncanny | 8 Responses

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

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

We ended our last installment in the midst of the pivotal scene in the Tides Restaurant. There, we met Mrs. Bundy, a droll parody of modern, Western, pig-headed scientism. With arch condescension, she refuses to believe Melanie’s stories about the bird attacks. “Impossible!” Mrs. Bundy declares. “Their brain pans aren’t large enough. . . Really, let’s be logical about this,” Read more …

Published: June 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art, articles, being, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, destiny, humanism, modernity, movie reviews, nature, North American New Right, originals, paradigm shifts, philosophy, psychology, scientism, The Birds, Transcendence | 4 Responses

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

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Part 1, Part 2

The police are called, and Mitch is asked to meet the sheriff at the Fawcett farm. Some detectives from Santa Rosa are going to join them there. Presumably, Mitch is expected to repeat his mother’s account of finding the corpse of Dan Fawcett, its eyes pecked out by homicidal birds. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, Derek Hawthorne, empiricism, horror movies, Jef Costello, maturity, movie reviews, nature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, relationships, scientism, The Birds, the uncanny | 1 Response

Owen Barfield’s History in English Words

Fenek Solère

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Owen Barfield
History in English Words
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1926

In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

— Owen Barfield Read more …

Published: May 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, C. S. Lewis, Fenek Solère, J. R. R. Tolkien, literature, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, poetry, religion, Symbolism | 2 Responses

Heidegger without Being

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The following brief introduction to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy does not discuss the concept of Being (Sein), simply because there’s no need to.

Published: April 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, humanism, language, modernity, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, philosophy of history, technology | 17 Responses

Christmas at Counter-Currents
Some Thoughts on Yule

Collin Cleary

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Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christmas, Collin Cleary, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, Yule | 2 Responses

On Žižek, Nothingness, & Original Sin

Alex Kirillov

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On October 18, an essay appeared at Current Affairs entitled, “What is Žižek For?” by Thomas Moller-Nielsen. As you might expect from the title, it is a takedown of the high-profile Lacanian-Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

I found this to be an interesting read for a variety of reasons, the first of which was because of nomenclature. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kirillov, anti-white rhetoric, articles, Marxism, mass immigration, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, progressivism, Slavoj Žižek, the left | 9 Responses

Alain de Benoist: O křesťanství

Alain de Benoist

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

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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.)

Remembering Martin Heidegger:
September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976

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Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian

Published: September 26, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, technology | 10 Responses

Conversation with a Philosopher:
Greg Johnson Interviewed About the New Right

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The following is the transcript of an interview that was conducted between Greg Johnson and a professional philosopher in January 2018. The original audio is here. The transcript was made by Julien Prail.

Interviewer: What is race? How would you define it as a philosopher?

Greg Johnson: Races are natural kinds. I believe that there are natural kinds in the world. Read more …

Published: July 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, biological race differences, Greg Johnson, interviews, philosophy, race realism, Russia, transcripts, white nationalism | 5 Responses

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

Max Weber

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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, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 1

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Leo Strauss is widely known as a critic of historicism and an advocate of classical philosophy. Historicism holds that philosophical ideas are relative to culture, whereas classical philosophy aims for knowledge of nature, which is not relative to culture. But what is Strauss’s own point of view? Does he base his arguments on historicist or classical philosophical premises? Read more …

Published: May 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 3 Responses

Mark Sedgwick’s Key Thinkers of the Radical Right

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Mark Sedgwick, ed.
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Mark Sedgwick is an English scholar of Western Esotericism and Islam. He is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Carl Schmitt, Daniel Friberg, Ernst Junger, European New Right, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Jack Donovan, Jared Taylor, Julius Evola, Kevin MacDonald, Mencius Moldbug, metapolitics, neoreaction, New Right, NRX, Oswald Spengler, Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Rene Guénon, Richard Spencer, Samuel Francis, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 24 Responses

Christmas at Counter-Currents
Some Thoughts on Yule

Collin Cleary

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Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christmas, Collin Cleary, finitude, holidays, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Yule | 3 Responses

Letting Heidegger Be Heidegger

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Scattered throughout Heidegger’s writings are some puzzling distinctions. For instance, in “The Question Concerning Technology,” Heidegger claims that the essence (Wesen) of technology is nothing technological.[1]

In the lecture “The Danger,” Read more …

Published: September 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 4 Responses

Remembering Martin Heidegger:
September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976

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Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian

Published: September 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, technology | 6 Responses

Video of the Day
A Conversation Between Heidegger & a Buddhist Monk

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The following conversation between Martin Heidegger and a Buddhist monk from Thailand, Bhikku Maha Mani, was filmed for West German television in 1963, and English subtitles were later added. In it, Heidegger discusses the difference between the Western and Eastern conception of life, the need for a new type of thinking, the nature of religion, the true meaning of development, the prospects for world peace, and the relationship between man and technology.

Published: September 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged religion, technology, video of the day | Leave a comment

Ґреґ Джонсон: «білість»

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English original here

Ґреґ Джонсон – фігура непересічна в рамках сучасної американської правиці. Один з найвизначніших ідеологів інтелектуального «білого націоналізму», головний редактор рупору американських «нових правих» Counter-Currents, чий внесок у формування метаполітичної повістки дня у США набагато відчутніший, ніж може здатися на перший погляд. Пропонуємо вашій увазі одну зі статей, в якій автор зачіпає важливість поняття «білості» і роль расового фактору не лише для мультирасових США, але й для Європи. Read more …

Published: August 10, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, assimilationism, biological race, colonialism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, imperialism, in translation, in Ukrainian, North American New Right, reprints, social constructionism, white identity, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Valkoisuus

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Suomentanut Timo Hännikäinen; English original here

Yksi ilmeinen tapa hyökätä valkoista nationalismia vastaan on väittää, että itse valkoisuuden käsite on ongelmallinen. Käsittelen nyt neljää sellaista vastaväitettä. Ensiksi, valkoisuuden käsitettä pidetään poliittisesti tarpeettomana. Toiseksi, valkoisuuden oletetaan kumoavan etnisen identiteetin. Kolmanneksi, valkoisuuden väitetään olevan sosiaalinen konstruktio, ei luonnollinen kategoria. Read more …

Published: August 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, assimilationism, biological race, colonialism, ethnonationalism, Greg Johnson, imperialism, in Finnish, in translation, North American New Right, reprints, social constructionism, white identity, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Whiteness