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3,674 words

English original here

L’Occident et ses peuples peuvent-ils être sauvés ? Et que faudra-t-il pour cela – en particulier si nous recherchons une solution à long terme plutôt qu’une dernière digue « provisoire » ? Une nouvelle Haute Culture de l’Occident peut-elle naître pour assurer l’existence des peuples de l’Occident pour une longue durée ? Quelles caractéristiques une telle nouvelle culture devrait-elle posséder ?

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Remembering Oswald Spengler:
May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936

Greg Johnson

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Oswald Spengler was born on this day in 1880. For his contributions to the philosophy of history and culture, Spengler is one of the most important philosophical influences on the North American New Right, largely by way of his disciple Francis Parker Yockey. Spengler is often wrong, but even when he errs, he does so magnificently. Read more …

Published: May 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history | 2 Responses

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Oswald Spengler:
May 29, 1880–May 8, 1936

Kerry Bolton

4,970 words

For the Right, one might disagree with Oswald Spengler, but one cannot ignore him. Of course, for the Left and orthodox academia, the simplistic option is to ignore him. Spengler continues to pose a challenge, and his great questions of our epoch have yet to be fully answered. But it is essential that the questions are at least asked.

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A Alta Cultura do Super-Homem:
Futuro do Ocidente

Ted Sallis

3,238 words

English original here

Pode o Ocidente e seus povos serem salvos? E o que será preciso para isso – particularmente se nós estamos preocupados com uma solução a longo prazo ao invés de um mero “quebra-molas”? Pode uma nova Alta Cultura do Ocidente emergir para garantir a existência dos povos do Ocidente por um longo tempo? Que características deve tal nova cultura possuir?

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The Overman High Culture:
Future of the West

Ted Sallis

3,313 words

Translations: French, Portuguese

Can the West and its peoples be saved? And what will this take–particularly if we are concerned with a long-term solution rather than a last ditch “stop gap?” Can a new High Culture of the West arise to secure the existence of the peoples of the West for an extended time frame? What characteristics should such a new culture have?

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Atlantis, Kush, & Turan:
Prehistoric Matrices of Ancient Civilizations in the Posthumous Work of Spengler, Part 2

Robert Steuckers

1,180 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 2, Part 1 here

The War Chariot

Spengler reserved his sympathy for the culture-amoeba of Turan, whose bearers were characterized by the love of adventure, implacable will power, a taste for violence, and freedom from vain sentimentality. Read more …

Published: September 26, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, geopolitics, Johnson translation, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Robert Steuckers, translations | Leave a comment

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Atlantis, Kush, & Turan:
Prehistoric Matrices of Ancient Civilizations in the Posthumous Work of Spengler, Part 1

Robert Steuckers

Nicholas Roerich, “The Destruction of Atlantis,” 1928–29

1,323 words

Part 1 of 2

Translated by Greg Johnson

Published: September 25, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Johnson translation, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Robert Steuckers, translations | Leave a comment

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Evola & Spengler

Robert Steuckers

Julius Evola

1,040 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

“I translated from German, at the request of the publisher Longanesi . . . Oswald Spengler’s vast and celebrated work The Decline of the West. That gave me the opportunity to specify, in an introduction, the meaning and the limits of this work which, in its time, had been world-famous.” Read more …

Published: September 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Johnson translation, Julius Evola, Ludwig Klages, North American New Right, on Evola, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, progress., Rene Guénon, Robert Steuckers, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

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Spengler: Criticism & Tribute

Revilo Oliver

Revilo Oliver in 1938

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Editor’s Note:

Oswald Spengler’s Man and Technics and Revilo Oliver’s America’s Decline: The Education of a Conservative and The Origins of Christianity are available for purchase on this website.

Conceived before the First World War is Oswald Spengler’s magisterial work, Der Untergang des Abendlandes (Munich, 1918). Read more …

Published: August 14, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cultural renewal, decadence, Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, race, Revilo Oliver | 1 Response

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Spengler:
An Introduction to His Life & Ideas

Keith Stimely

4,116 words

Oswald Spengler was born in Blankenburg (Harz) in central Germany in 1880, the eldest of four children, and the only boy. His mother’s side of the family was quite artistically bent. His father, who had originally been a mining technician and came from a long line of mineworkers, was an official in the German postal bureaucracy, and he provided his family with a simple but comfortable middle class home.

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Nietzsche & Spengler:
Preface to Thinkers of the Right

Kerry Bolton

1,900 words

Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler loom large over the horizon of twentieth-century European thought. Nietzsche was influential in the thinking of Spengler, while either one or both had a major impact on the thinking of most of the writers we deal with herein.

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Is Racial Purism Decadent?

Greg Johnson

Oswald Spengler, 1880–1936

3,131 words

Translations: French, Spanish

“Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.” —Oswald Spengler

Recently I spent a good deal of time re-reading the great Oswald Spengler: for general enlightenment, but also with an eye to criticizing his teachings about race, which seemed at first reading confused, bizarre, and dangerous. Read more …