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Remembering René Guénon:
November 15, 1886 to January 7, 1951

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René Guénon was born on this day in 1886. Along with Julius Evola, Guénon was one of the leading figures in the Traditionalist school, which has deeply influenced my own outlook and the metapolitical mission and editorial agenda of Counter-Currents Publishing and North American New Right.

In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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Tradice & Revoluce

Edouard Rix

497 words

Based on English translation here

Za co vlastně bojujeme? Každý politický voják si tuto otázku jednou bude nucen položit. Ačkoli to možná někomu může připadnout protikladné, obvykle odvětíme, že bojujeme ve jménu Tradice a Revoluce. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Edouard Rix, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, North American New Right, on Evola, originals, Rene Guénon, revolution, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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Man’s Devolution Across Cycles:
Radical Traditionalism on Anthropogenesis

Michael Bell

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Hieronymus Bosch, "Garden of Earthly Delights," c. 1490–1510, center panel, detail

Concerning the genesis of modern humanity, there are two primary theories that receive credence in anthropological circles. One is the “Out of Africa” hypothesis, which argues that today’s humans are the evolved descendants of a primitive race of hominids that, 70,000 years ago, departed its homeland in Africa and spread across the globe. Upon entering Asia and Europe, these archaic humans displaced the indigenous Neanderthals through violent conflict and higher birthrates. They then adapted to their environments and gradually morphed into today’s human races through a process called localized evolution.

The Kali Yuga:
René Guénon’s Critique of Modernity

Thomas F. Bertonneau

René Guénon, 1886–1951

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The Conservative critique of modernity is by no means a recent phenomenon; it begins rather with the responders to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Jacobin followers in the late Eighteenth Century. It is sufficient in this regard to mention the names of Edmund Burke (1729–1797) and Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) and of their successors, S. T. Coleridge (1772–1834) and François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), to suggest the range and richness of immediately post-revolutionary conservative discourse. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, modernity, North American New Right, on Evola, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism | 3 Responses

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René Guénon: East & West

Julius Evola

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Translator anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

The new edition of René Guénon’s book The Crisis of the Modern World offers the opportunity for a critical account, which may be of some interest, of the author’s leading ideas. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism, translations | 1 Response

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Remembering René Guénon

Edouard Rix

René Guénon, 1886–1951

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

This essay and the one that follows are presented in commemoration of René Guénon’s birth on November 15, 1886.

On January 7th, 1951, the Frenchman René Guénon, one of the principal representatives of Traditional thought in the 20thcentury, died in Cairo. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Edouard Rix, Johnson translation, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism, translations | 9 Responses

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Biography of René Guénon

Harry Oldmeadow

2,358 words

René Guénon (1886–1951) was a French metaphysician, writer, and editor who was largely responsible for laying the metaphysical groundwork for the Traditionalist or Perennialist school of thought in the early twentieth century. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, North American New Right, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism | 9 Responses

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Tradition & Revolution

Edouard Rix

603 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations of this translation: Czech, Romanian

What are we fighting for? Every political soldier has to raise this question. Contradictory as it might seem, we are inclined to answer that we fight for Tradition and Revolution.

The Tradition