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Edited by Kerry Bolton
Francis Parker Yockey was born on September 18, 1917. In commemoration of his birthday, I have extracted the following passages from a variety of typewritten manuscripts that, as far as I know, have been hitherto published only in my 1998 collection of Yockey essays and newspaper cuttings.[1] (more…)
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With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898–1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the limitations – the contradictions and inconsistencies–in Nietzsche’s thinking.
”The Colossus of Rhodes” – Salvador Dalí
”The Colossus of Rhodes” – Salvador Dalí
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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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Lawrence R. Brown’s The Might of the West is one of the fundamental books of our century.
Julius Evola, 1898–1974
Julius Evola, 1898–1974
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Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, or collapse of a higher preceding world. (more…)
Julius Evola
Julius Evola
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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.” (more…)
Oswald Spengler, 1880–1936
Oswald Spengler, 1880–1936
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My book (The Decline of the West, Vol. I.) has met with widespread misunderstandings. In a sense, that is almost an inevitable concomitant of any novel approach which arrives at new conclusions. Such a reaction is all the more to be expected when the conclusions reached, or even the perspectives and methodology that led to them, present a serious challenge to the prevailing mood of an age. (more…)
Oswald Spengler, 1880 – 1936
Oswald Spengler, 1880 – 1936
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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.