Tag: nominalism

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Translator’s Note: In 1986, a compilation of texts by Alain de Benoist and Guillaume Faye entitled Las Ideas de la Nueva Derecha: Una respuesta al colonialismo cultural (The Ideas of the Nouvelle Droite: A Response to Cultural Colonialism) was published in Spain by Ediciones de Nuevo Arte Thor. The texts were translated from the French language by Carlos Pinedo Cestafe, who, in addition to the translation, produced an introductory essay (Bases Ideológicas de la Nueva Derecha) of about 140 pages that examined the ideological landscape of the Nouvelle Droite. The following is the first part of that introduction. (more…)

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00:05:00 Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (more…)

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Stus illustrates the idea of meaningless toil that ends only in death in this excerpt:  (more…)

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Solid ground is death; it’s the rule of matter and the mundane; both air and water are the alternative, the boundary between the nominal and the Real it refuses to see. Yet, terms like “desert” or “tundra” refer to the lonely life of non-affirmation. One cannot create a substitute world; civilization is materialization of dominance. (more…)

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Moral self-determination is difficult. So are criticism and logic; they are discussed and piously praised until they are used. At that moment, they become oppressive. Vasyl Stus (1938–1985) is not well known in the west; in fact, he is not known at all. Part of the reason is that he is a standing condemnation of the mass society from which poetic “celebrities” are generated. Vasyl Stus spent a substantial portion of his adult life in Soviet Gulags and hence is known to only a few specialists. (more…)

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Years ago, a friend told me a parable about a species of hominid that did not live to inherit the earth. These hominids regarded each and every entity as entirely unique. (more…)

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“With Platonism, philosophy becomes a police operation.” – Miguel de Beistegui[1]

The Affect of Truth

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