Counter-Currents
Tag: philosophy of culture
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1,234 wordsOn Saturday, September 27, 2014, I was one of four speakers at a meeting of the London Forum in central London. More than 70 people were present.
The London Forum and similar events, such as The End of the Present World conference, are models of organization and execution. (more…)
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1,610 wordsGerman translation here, Greek translation here
If science fiction is quintessentially “progressive” and fantasy literature is “reactionary,” then we need a third category for the six Dune books by Frank Herbert (1920–1986)—not to mention George Lucas’ six Star Wars movies—which combine futuristic, sci-fi elements with the archaic values and magical universes of fantasy.
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2,176 wordsMark Fisher
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2014Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx was an attempt to resurrect Marxism. Published in 1993, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe, Specters of Marx was an attempt to disrupt the apparent flow of historical progression (more…)
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Oswald Spengler woodcut – Bertrand Zadig
Oswald Spengler woodcut – Bertrand Zadig
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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. (more…)
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Jean Delville, “Prometheus,” 1907
Jean Delville, “Prometheus,” 1907
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Edited by Kerry Bolton
No European can ever know the price, quality, and intensity of the love which a colonial brings to the history and the works of the Western culture. No matter how sensitive he is by nature, no matter how high the cultural-historical focus to which he contain and hold, the European—and I have in mind such beings as Goethe, Fichte, Carlyle, and Leonardo—must of necessity take many things for granted. The houses, the streets, the society, the universal diffusion of culture—he grows up in this atmosphere, having nothing with which to contrast it. Not only concepts, but feelings also, form themselves by polarity. (more…)
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Roman masks, Baths of Decius, Rome, 2nd century CE
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Edited by Kerry Bolton
Roman masks, Baths of Decius, Rome, 2nd century CE
Editor’s Note:
With the 1953 notes on “Culture,” Yockey develops a theme that repudiates rationalism, positivism, and other such 19th-century materialistic philosophies, presenting the post-rationalist era of History as the unfolding of a great drama that is beyond rational or scientific interpretation, (more…)
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Oswald Spengler woodcut – Bertrand Zadig
Oswald Spengler woodcut – Bertrand Zadig
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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. (more…)
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April 3, 2013 Collin Cleary
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3
Hegel & the Struggle for Recognition
G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831
G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831
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Part 3 of 5
Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 20117. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition
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Othmar Spann, October 1, 1878–July 8, 1950
Othmar Spann, October 1, 1878–July 8, 1950
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Othmar Spann was an Austrian philosopher who was a key influence on German conservative and traditionalist thought in the period after World War I, and he is thus considered a representative of the intellectual movement known as the “Conservative Revolution.” Spann was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Vienna, where he taught not only scientific social and economic theories, but also influenced many students with the presentation of his worldview in his lectures. (more…)
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1,493 wordsThe duel to the death over honor is a remarkable phenomenon. Animals duel over dominance, which insures their access to mates. But these duels result in death only by accident, because the whole process is governed by their survival instincts, and their “egos” do not prevent them from surrendering when the fight is hopeless. (more…)
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March 7, 2013 Robert Steuckers
Evola & Spengler
837 wordsEnglish version here
“Překládal jsem z němčiny na žádost vydavatele Longanesiho… rozsáhlé a oslavované dílo Oswalda Spenglera Zánik Západu. Poskytlo mi to příležitost v úvodu specifikovat význam i hranice tohoto díla, jež si svého času vydobylo světovou slávu.” Těmito slovy uvádí Julius Evola ve své knize Pouť rumělky (str. 177) řadu kritických odstavců ke Spenglerovi.
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Hans Freyer, 1887–1969
Hans Freyer, 1887–1969
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Hans Freyer was an influential German sociologist who lived during the early half of the 20th century and is associated not only with his role in the development of sociology in German academia but also with the “Far Right.” Freyer was part of the intellectual trend known in Germany during the 1920s and 30s as the Conservative Revolution, and had also worked in universities under the Third Reich government for much of its reign, although it should be clear that Freyer was never an “orthodox” National Socialist.[1] (more…)
