Tag Archives: philosophy

The Life of the Party

Fullmoon Ancestry

Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl, Arthur Schopenhauer, 1815.

1,532 words

Whether attending a birthday party or a social event, people have sometimes referred to me as being “the life of the party.” There have also been times where I found myself excluded from my social circle and community. Recently, I found myself not being invited to a birthday party that some of my other friends were invited to. Although I always try to stay positive and optimistic, I couldn’t help but feel ignored and forgotten. Read more …

Published: February 22, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, Fullmoon Ancestry, North American New Right, originals, solitude | 7 Responses

Killing Us With Kindness:
You Betcha!

James J. O'Meara

3,341 words

To be sure, [Heidegger’s] empty formula of “thoughtful remembrance” can also be filled in with a different attitudinal syndrome, for example with the anarchist demand for a subversive stance of refusal, which corresponds more to present moods than does blind submission to something superior. But the arbitrariness with which the same thought-figure can be given contemporary actualization remains irritating. Read more …

Published: February 19, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, architecture, articles, communitarianism, Donald Trump, individualism, James J. O'Meara, kindness, law, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, moral communities, moral signaling, niceness, North American New Right, ontology, originals, rules, sociology, sociopathy, Søren Kierkegaard, Theodor Adorno | 10 Responses

Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Three:
The Emergence of Modernity

6,023 words

1. Introduction

For Heidegger, the history of Western metaphysics is characterized by understanding Being narrowly in terms of what satisfies human needs and desires – especially the desire for knowledge, prediction, and control. This “subjective turn” is usually associated with the modern period, but Heidegger locates its inception much earlier, with Plato and some of the Pre-Socratics. (These points are discussed at length in Part One of this series.) Read more …

Published: February 12, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, certainty, Christianity, Collin Cleary, Martin Heidegger, modernity, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

Them’s the Rules

Mark Gullick

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1,938 words

Don’t use the rules.
They’re not for you,
They’re for the fools.
And you’re a fool
If you don’t know that.

So, here’s the rules
You stupid fool.

— The Clash, “Cheat” Read more …

Published: February 11, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, chess, institutions, language, law, linguistics, Mark Gullick, meaning, norms, North American New Right, originals | 14 Responses

Politicians, Guns, & Money:
The Profane Memoirs of a Justified Con Man

James J. O'Meara

You can buy Stephen Paul Foster’s novel Toward the Bad I Kept on Turning here.

3,142 words

Stephen Paul Foster
Toward the Bad I Kept on Turning: A Confessional Novel
Independently published, 2020

“My cynicism I carefully dissembled.”

“The sapience of a post-modern philosopher attached to the commentary of a Chicago mayor, I think, would bring a perfect understanding of where late-20th-century America was headed.” Read more …

Published: February 10, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, coercion, collusion, conservatism, corruption, ethics, fiction, geopolitics, government, history, imperialism, James J. O'Meara, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, Stephen Paul Foster, Toward the Bad I Kept on Turning, truth | 5 Responses

Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part Two:
Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages

6,166 words

Introduction

In the previous essay (“Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part One: Platonism”) I began to sketch Heidegger’s argument for the claim that Western metaphysics lays the groundwork for the nihilism and decadence of modernity. I framed this account partly as a critique of the Traditionalists Julius Evola and René Guénon, who aimed to combat modernity with a “Traditionalism” grounded in Western metaphysics Read more …

Published: January 29, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, being, Christianity, Collin Cleary, consciousness, God, knowing, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, modernity, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, objectivity, omnipotence, originals, phenomenology, Plato, Platonism, presence, problem of the external world, subjectivity, Traditionalism | 15 Responses

So, in fact, this is not a humiliating defeat at all, but a rare species of victory.

Rock Bottom Blackpills

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Charles Le Brun, The Suicide of Cato of Utica, 1646.

3,354 words

— Cato the Younger, blackpiller.

In this amazing modern world that we’ve built for ourselves, the shower is the only place we’re not surrounded by electronics, at least for now. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, blackpills, conspiracy theories, depression, epistemology, ideology, Joe Biden, losers, neoreaction, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, QAnon, redpills, spirit, the Jewish question, truth, winners | 51 Responses

L’Etranger to Himself:
Race & Reality in Albert Camus’ The Stranger

Fenek Solère

2,166 words

Albert Camus
Trans. Joseph Laredo
The Stranger
London: Penguin, 2000 (1942)

“I love my country too much to be a nationalist.”

— Attributed to Albert Camus Read more …

Published: January 20, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged absurdism, Albert Camus, Arab nationalism, Arabs, articles, book reviews, Fenek Solère, France, French Algeria, interracial crime, North American New Right, originals, Pieds-Noir, race relations, racism, sexuality, the French Empire, the Stranger | 4 Responses

Remembering Mr. Gurdjieff
(January 13, 1866/1872/1877–October 24, 1949)

Mr. Gurdjieff

7,589 words

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of the Russian Empire (it is now in Armenia and is called Gyumri). Read more …

Published: January 13, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, being, Bodhidharma, Buddhism, Collin Cleary, David Hume, epistemology, esotericism, George Gurdjieff, knowing, mechanicality, metaphysics, modernity, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, René Descartes, subjectivity, technology, the ego, the Self, wakefulness | 13 Responses

The Golden Path:
Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune & God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

4,241 words

Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) is one of the masterpieces of science fiction, far eclipsing its five sequels in readership and reputation. But I wish to argue that the third and fourth Dune books, Children of Dune (1976) and God Emperor of Dune (1981), are equally audacious works of the imagination. [1] Both volumes tend to be underrated, partly due to the long shadow of Dune, partly because the sheer scope of Herbert’s vision boggles the mind, Read more …

Published: January 12, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, being, book reviews, Children of Dune, Dune, dystopia, Frank Herbert, free will, Gelassenheit, God Emperor of Dune, Greg Johnson, honor, knowing, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, science fiction, thumos, utopia | 13 Responses

Remembering Anthony M. Ludovici
(January 8, 1882–April 3, 1971)

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Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882.

Ludovici was one of the first and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exponent of Nietzsche’s thought. Ludovici was also an original philosopher in his own right. Read more …

Published: January 8, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, John V. Day, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics, Part 1:
Platonism

Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511.

8,701 words

1. Introduction

In my essay “Heidegger Against the Traditionalists,” I sketched a critique of Guénon and Evola from a Heideggerian perspective. Although I raised several objections to Traditionalism, the crucial one was this: Guénon and Evola are thoroughly (and uncritically) invested in the Western metaphysical tradition. According to Heidegger, however, it is precisely the Western metaphysical tradition that is responsible for all the modern ills decried by the Traditionalists. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alētheia, ancient Greeks, anti-modernism, Aristotle, articles, being, Collin Cleary, concealment, Dasein, Edmund Husserl, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, myth, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, phusis, Plato, Platonism, presence, primordial metaphysics, Socrates, the Forms, tradition, Traditionalism, truth, Western philosophy | 14 Responses

Living in Truth:
A Yuletide Homily

Jef Costello

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Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

2,637 words

The key problem of our age is disconnection from truth. This takes several distinct forms. The first, and most obvious, is the prevalence of lies. As everyone knows, modern, Western civilization is founded upon lies about human nature, culture, and history. The most significant of these — underlying, in one form of another, most of the rest — is the equality lie; the myth of human equality, which is the chief myth of our age. (“Myth,” as most of my readers know, can have a positive or a negative connotation, as there are salutary myths; here, obviously, I am using the term in its purely negative sense.) Read more …

Published: December 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Christmas, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, relativism, truth | 7 Responses

Some Thoughts on Yule

3,427 words

Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christmas, Collin Cleary, finitude, holidays, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, religion, Yule | 8 Responses

Traditional Conservatism Can Never Defeat The Enlightenment Left

Ricardo Duchesne

White students pondering over a Herbert Marcuse lecture on the “one-dimensional mind” of the white race.

1,364 words

No one knows Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861). He was a legal philosopher of Jewish parentage who converted to Christianity and became a defender of Prussian Lutheran conservatism against the imposition of Enlightenment values. He rejected Hegel’s argument Read more …

Published: December 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, conservatism, cultural Marxism, dogma, egalitarianism, ethnocentrism, evolutionary psychology, Friedrich Julius Stahl, G. W. F. Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, inequality, modernity, monarchism, North American New Right, psychology, rationalism, reason, reprints, rhetoric, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Enlightenment, the middle class, tradition, Traditionalism | 12 Responses

Heidegger Against the Traditionalists

6,918 words

1. Introduction

Those on the New Right are bound together partly by shared intellectual interests. Ranking very high indeed on any list of those interests would be the works of Martin Heidegger and those of the Traditionalist [1] school, especially René Guénon and Julius Evola. My own work has been heavily influenced by both Heidegger and Traditionalism. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, being, Collin Cleary, Dasein, die Lichtung, empiricism, Julius Evola, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, Platonism, primordial metaphysics, Rene Guénon, the clearing, tradition, Traditionalism, Western philosophy | 28 Responses

The Mere Thought of Racism

Hewitt E. Moore

1,273 words

For the better part of the last 60 years, social engineers have been conducting a rigorous sociopolitical campaign in which they have attempted to merge biology with ideology. More precisely, they’ve conducted a successful experiment that has amalgamated the tangible traits of race with the abstract ideological concepts of –isms. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-racism, articles, epistemology, health, Hewitt E. Moore, ideology, mental health, microaggressions, North American New Right, originals, progressivism, psychology, science, scientism | 11 Responses

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

312 words

René Guénon was born on November 15, 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. (For a sense of my differences with Guénon, see my lecture on “Vico and the New Right.”)

Dreamweaving

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

Vasily Surikov, A God’s Fool Sitting on the Snow, 1885.

2,124 words

Before the American general election, my friends kept asking me who’d be the likely winner, Trump or Biden. My response, which infuriated everyone who got it, was usually some variation of “define winning.”

Do you mean who’ll win the most votes? Do you mean who’ll win the elections, presuming no shenanigans, which was a laughable proposition even before the evidence started pouring in for America’s advanced banana republicanism? Read more …

Published: November 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, dreams, mysticism, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, spirituality, the future | 11 Responses

Event Horizon

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

1,729 words

If you’re looking for a film to get you good and spooked for Halloween, you can’t go wrong with Event Horizon, the 1996 sci-fi horror directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The spooky atmosphere, the gore, the violence, the senselessness of the horror, the simultaneous claustrophobia and agoraphobia of a vast, cavernous spaceship in Neptune’s upper atmosphere all add up to provide a unique experience. But more important to us is the existential meaning of such horrors as the movie has to offer. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Event Horizon, evil, materialism, movie reviews, Nicholas R. Jeelvy, North American New Right, originals, rationalism, space exploration, the 1990s, the end of history | 36 Responses

Raising Aristocrats

William de Vere

8,088 words

O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers’ gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Read more …

Published: October 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, childhood, children, education, Friedrich Nietzsche, heroism, innocence, liberal education, nobility, North American New Right, originals, parenthood, parenting, spirit, William de Vere, youth | 6 Responses

Remembering Friedrich Nietzsche
(October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020.

723 words

Friedrich Nietzsche was born this day in 1844 in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in August 25, 1900, in Weimar, Saxony, in the Second German Reich. The outlines of Nietzsche’s life are readily available online.

Nietzsche is one of the most important philosophers of the North American New Right because of his contributions to the philosophy of history, culture, and religion.

Hendrik de Man, The Right, & Ethical Socialism

Kerry Bolton

5,462 words

“Socialism” is intrinsic to the “Right.” When journalists and academics refer in one breath to “liberalism, neoliberalism, and the Right-wing,” that attests to their ignorance, not to the accuracy of any such bastardization. Even at its most basic level of understanding, it seems to have been forgotten that in Britain there were Tories and Whigs in opposition. Now, Toryism has become so detached from its origins Read more …

Published: October 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfredo Rocco, articles, Christopher Lasch, conservatism, corporatism, economics, Enrico Corradini, fascism, Fascist Italy, free trade, Friedrich List, Giambattista Vico, guilds, Henrik de Man, heroism, Joseph de Maistre, Julius Evola, Karl Marx, Kerry Bolton, liberalism, mercantilism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Otto Strasser, scientific socialism, socialism, spirit, syndicalism, the bourgeoisie, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle, Traditionalism, Werner Sombart, World War I | 8 Responses

The Right Wing’s Got Talent

Michael Walker

4,427 words

Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Suprémacistes: L’enquête Mondiale chez les Gourous de la Droite Identitaire
Paris: Plon, 2020

This book results from interviews with leading thinkers of the race-conscious right — the so-called alternative right — which seeks to bring race to the forefront of political debate. The title Suprémacistes is, however, misleading; for the author, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, nowhere describes the people who are the subject of this study as supremacists Read more …

Published: October 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, book reviews, European New Right, Francois Bosque, French New Right, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, interviews, Jared Taylor, journalism, messaging, Michael Walker, North American New Right, optimism, originals, personalities, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, rhetoric, Supremacists, the alt right, Tomislav Sunić | 11 Responses

Now Available!
Graduate School with Heidegger

Greg Johnson
Graduate School with Heidegger
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2020
220 pages

There are three formats for Graduate School with Heidegger:

Hardcover: $40 (including postage; add $5 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
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E-book: $5.

Remembering Savitri Devi
(September 30, 1905–October 22, 1982)

792 words

Savitri Devi was a philosopher, a religious thinker, and a tireless polemicist and activist for the causes of animal rights, European pagan revivalism, Hindu nationalism, German National Socialism, and — after the Second World War — pan-European racial nationalism. She also sought to found a religion, Esoteric Hitlerism, fusing National Socialism with the Traditionalism of René Guénon and Julius Evola. All told, she was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 20th century. Read more …

Published: September 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ecology, environmentalism, Esoteric Hitlerism, Greg Johnson, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Savitri Devi, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 3 Responses

Remembering Martin Heidegger:
September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976

4,645 words

Translations: Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian

Martin Heidegger is one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, both in terms of the depth and originality of his ideas and the breadth of his influence in philosophy, theology, the human sciences, and culture in general.

Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889, in the town of Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on May 26, 1976 in Freiburg and was buried in Meßkirch. Read more …

Published: September 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, modernity, National Socialism, originals, phenomenology, technology | 2 Responses

Did Heidegger Say the Holocaust Was Jewish “Self-Annihilation”?

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The Charge

One of the most sensational charges against Heidegger is that he claimed that the Holocaust was the “self-annihilation” (Selbstvernichtung) of the Jews. This charge was first made by Italian philosophy professor Donatella di Cesare in an article in Corriere Della Sere on February 9, 2015: “Heidegger: ‘Jews Self-Destructed’: New Black Notebooks Reveal Philosopher’s Shocking Take on Shoah.”[1] Read more …

Published: September 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donatella di Cesare, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, modernity, originals, the holocaust, the Jewish question | 18 Responses