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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
1. Fichte on the Nature of the State
We began to explore Fichte’s political philosophy in the last installment, as expounded primarily in his 1796 work Foundations of Natural Right. It is a basic principle of Fichte’s philosophy that subjectivity, what he calls the “I,” must bring nature under the control of reason. (more…)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre
3,903 words
Introduction here, Chapter 9 Part 2 here, Chapter 10 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Communities, whether ancient or recent, and whether of a historical, ethnocultural, linguistic, religious, sexual, or other nature, are natural dimensions of belonging. They accompany and underlie chosen forms of identity. No individual can exist without belonging, if only to distance himself from it. (more…)
Jean-Claude Michéa
Jean-Claude Michéa
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Introduction here, Chapter 5 Part 1 here, Chapter 6 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
No doubt we should have expected this. The views developed by Jean-Claude Michéa were not slow to earn him many critiques, mostly directed at two of his books, Orpheus’s Complex and Mysteries of the Left. (more…)
France’s Estates-General of 1789, where the concepts of a political Left and Right were allegedly born.
France’s Estates-General of 1789, where the concepts of a political Left and Right were allegedly born.
5,436 words
Introduction here, Chapter 2 Part 1 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Many people who sincerely consider themselves to be on the Left or Right are glad to give a definition, often quite clear, of what this means, but their definition is rarely accepted by others of the Left or Right. (more…)
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Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian
Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human sciences, and culture in general.
Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889 in the town of Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on May 26, 1976 in Freiburg and was buried in Meßkirch. (more…)
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Is there a warm, fuzzy feeling in your belly yet? That’s called nostalgia. It’s what you get when your glory days are behind you and all that’s left ahead are the many and grueling indignities of middle and old age. — some daft scribbler
When we talk about modernity, what often gets talked about is the alienating effect of modern technology. (more…)
Carl Friedrich Lessing, Rocky Landscape
Carl Friedrich Lessing, Rocky Landscape
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Many theories have been posited as to the cause of the decline of the Western world, from demographic disaster and dysgenics to spiritual malaise and the death of Christianity. Yet, while these phenomena are symptoms of our collapsing societies, they do not fully explain why we have embarked on our wholesale self-destruction. Could it be that we have let our world descend into rack and ruin because we simply do not live there anymore? For the vast majority of the developed world, cyberspace has supplanted reality. (more…)
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Greg Johnson was joined by Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative for an Ask Me Anything session on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the White Lives Matter day of action as well as other subjects, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
The history of modernity can be understood at least in part as a gigantic process of uniformization. Induced by philosophico-moral or political universalism and the diffusion of techniques for the modeling of behavior more effective than those of the most centralized dictatorships, it has expressed itself in the West by the gradual eradication of differentiated ways of life, (more…)
The Varangian Guard of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The Varangian Guard of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1,783 words
Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Just as it would be vain to oppose to abstract equality a similarly abstract inequality, it would in my opinion be mistaken to try to oppose nationalism or ethnocentrism to the ideology of Sameness. (more…)
3,808 words
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Communities, whether old or recent, whether ethno-cultural, linguistic, religious, sexual, or something else, are natural dimensions of belonging. No individual can exist without belonging, even if only to distance himself from it. (more…)
