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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.”)

Published: November 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, religion, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 3 Responses

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Dreamweaving

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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

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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

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Event Horizon

Nicholas R. Jeelvy

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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

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Raising Aristocrats

William de Vere

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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

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

Greg Johnson

Phil Eiger Newmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, 2020.

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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.

Published: October 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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Hendrik de Man, The Right, & Ethical Socialism

Kerry Bolton

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“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 | 7 Responses

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The Right Wing’s Got Talent

Michael Walker

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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

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Now Available!
Graduate School with Heidegger

Greg Johnson

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)
Paperback: $25 (including postage; add $5 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East).
E-book: $5.

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

Greg Johnson

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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

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

Greg Johnson

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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

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

Greg Johnson

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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

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Video of the Day:
Nietzsche’s Historical Vitalism

Video of the Day

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In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Greg Johnson joins Fróði Midjord for a conversation on Nietzsche’s second essay in the Untimely Meditations, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life (1874). Topics include civilizational decline, nihilism, vitalism, Christianity, and Nietzsche’s critique of Hegel’s philosophy of history.

The episode is archived on BitChute (video) and Spreaker Read more …

Published: September 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frodi Midjord, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, Guide to Kulchur, nihilism, North American New Right, video of the day, vitalism | 4 Responses

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Today’s Livestream:
Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditations

Video of the Day

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Greg Johnson will be joining Fróði Midjord on Guide to Kulchur today at 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT / 20:00 CET to discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditations as part of a series called First Principles, devoted to books central to a Right-wing understanding of the world. You can watch the stream on the official Guide to Kulchur YouTube and DLive channels. Read more …

Published: September 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Friedrich Nietzsche, Frodi Midjord, Greg Johnson, Guide to Kulchur, video of the day | Leave a comment

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The Metaphysics of Integral Ecology

William de Vere

Caspar David Friedrich, Landscape with Mountain Lake in the Morning, 1823.

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Among those on the Right who address man’s relationship to the rest of the natural world, one finds a variety of approaches. There are the anthropocentric conservationists, who promote the “wise use” or prudent management of natural resources for future generations. There are the Social Darwinist varieties, Read more …

Published: September 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agape, articles, Christianity, constructivism, ecology, emanationism, environmentalism, epistemology, German Idealism, hierarchy, industrialization, integral ecology, knowledge, metaphysics, modernity, monism, nature, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, originals, panentheism, Platonism, postmodernism, primordial metaphysics, Sophia perennis, Traditionalism, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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Remembering Francis Parker Yockey
(September 18, 1917–June 16, 1960)

Greg Johnson

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Francis Parker Yockey was born 103 years ago today, September 18, in Chicago. He died in San Francisco on June 16, 1960, an apparent suicide. Yockey is one of America’s greatest anti-liberal thinkers and an abiding influence on the North American New Right. In honor of his birthday, I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following works on this site.

Published: September 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Francis Parker Yockey, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, political philosophy | 8 Responses

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Immobile Warriors:
Evola’s Post-War Career from the Perspective of Neville’s New Thought

James J. O'Meara

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What has got to be gotten over is the false idea that a hallucination is a private matter.

— P. K. Dick [1]

There is no fiction. What is fiction today will be a fact tomorrow. Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, magic, Neville, New Thought, North American New Right, originals | 22 Responses

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De Descriptione Temporum:
A Description of Our Times

Fenek Solère

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If they embark on this course, the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely “conditions.” The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds — making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. Read more …

Published: September 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, English identity, Fenek Solère, literature, North American New Right, originals, paganism, spirituality, the Inklings | 5 Responses

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The Certainty of Chance

Mark Gullick

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“I believe in the certainty of chance,” sang Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy in 1998, a wonderful songwriter musing on one of philosophy’s oldest conundrums. Are events pre-ordained or as yet unwritten? Do we live in a world of free will or determinism? All of us will look back on our lives and find at least one incident that changed Read more …

Published: September 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, censorship, chance, Costa Rica, England, espionage, fate, life, Mark Gullick, North American New Right, originals, writing | 7 Responses

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“Black Deeds Must Be Cur’d with Death”:
Justice & Revenge in Renaissance Drama

Kathryn S.

Promotional image from the UK’s Almeida Theatre production of The Duchess of Malfi (performed from November 30, 2019 through January 25, 2020)

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I. Classical Western Thought on Justice and Revenge

One of the most fascinating discussions to emerge from our collective Western inheritance concerns the definition of justice and the double-sided nature of justice or vengeance (personified memorably in pop culture through the literal “two-faced” character of Harvey Dent and his Janus-faced coin). Aristotle (384-322 BC) determined that “justice” had at least two different meanings: Read more …

Published: August 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Classical civilization, drama, egalitarianism, John Webster, justice, Kathryn S, North American New Right, originals, realpolitik, Renaissance era, revenge, rule of law, self-interest, social cohesion, the law, theater, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Middleton, vengeance | 4 Responses

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Beast Men & BLM:
Lanz von Liebenfels’ Prophetic Visions

James J. O'Meara

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Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels
Ostara and the New Templars
Translated by George Klanderud
GermanenOrden Series, vol. 4
The 55 Club, 2019

Deep-sea fish, bats, clairvoyant Frisians in foggy country, the saurian with the electrical central eye in an equally dim, misty world, the wise Nibelung-dwarves have a strange and conspicuous connection to the results of the most recent natural scientific research. Read more …

Published: August 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Aryanism, Christianity, creation myth, esotericism, eugenics, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Kabbalah, Lanz von Liebenfels, mysticism, National Socialism, Neville, North American New Right, originals, Ostara, racial purity, religion, secret societies, synchronicity, women | 18 Responses

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Foreword to Graduate School with Heidegger
by an Anonymous Heidegger Scholar

Anonymous Heidegger Scholar

You can order Greg Johnson’s Graduate School with Heidegger here.

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What a gift it is, to have this collection of Greg Johnson’s essays on Heidegger available together in a real book, on real paper! All sorts of readers will appreciate Johnson’s lively, unpretentious, and accessible presentations of Heidegger’s thought, both those who have never read a word of Heidegger—and may thus stand in need of good reasons for doing so—and those, like me, who have been poring over the German philosopher’s writings for years now.

Johnson gives due credit to the best academic commentators on Heidegger, Read more …

Published: August 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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The Gods of the Forest

Greg Johnson

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This is what I believe:

“That I am I.”

“That my soul is a dark forest.”

“That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.” Read more …

Published: August 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Edmund Husserl, Greg Johnson, language, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, prejudice | 11 Responses

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Julius Evola:
The Philosopher & Magician in War: 1943-1945

Collin Cleary

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Gianfranco de Turris
Julius Evola: The Philosopher and Magician in War: 1943–1945
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2020

This English translation of Gianfranco de Turris’s Julius Evola: Un filosofo in guerra 1943–1945 has come along at just the right time, for it shows us how a great man coped both with societal collapse and with personal tragedy. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, adversity, articles, Benito Mussolini, biographies, book reviews, Collin Cleary, fascism, Germany, Gianfranco de Turris, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, post-occupational network, post-war Europe, Third Reich, Vienna, World War II | 9 Responses

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Towards a Right-Wing Critical Theory

Coomeraswamy

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Amid the social turmoil of the late 1960s, the German Communist student Rudi Dutschke called for a “long march through the institutions” as the preferred strategy of ensuring the victory of global Marxist revolution. The success of this initiative is no more prominent in the West than in today’s academia, where Frankfurt School Read more …

Published: July 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, colonialism, conservatism, critical theory, deconstructivism, East vs. West, epistemology, Frankfurt School, globalism, imperialism, Imperium, Julius Evola, materialism, modernism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, Patrick Buchanan, post-colonialism, postmodernism, progress., Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 18 Responses

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We’re the Bad Guys?

Winston E. Bakewell

René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.

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The twofold crises of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic are perfect opportunities for modern nihilists and culture-destroyers of every stripe to let off all the brakes. It is not often that world events align so cleanly with the rhetoric and goals of our enemies, which presents some troubling developments Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, amoralism, articles, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd, ideology, individualism, leftism, liberalism, lying, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, rhetoric, self-righteousness, virtue signaling, Winston E. Bakewell | 6 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Nine

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Mitch gathers Melanie’s still unconscious body into his arms and carries her down the stairs. Lydia walks ahead of him, carrying an oil lamp. “Oh, poor thing! Poor thing!” she says. Her resentment toward Melanie now completely gone, she feels only pity. Lydia goes to fetch bandages, as Mitch lays Melanie on the living room sofa. He asks Cathy to get some brandy, Read more …

Published: July 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, Alfred Hitchcock, articles, being, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, family, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, scientism, The Birds | 16 Responses

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Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

Ricardo Duchesne

Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

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Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, history, identity, individualism, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, ingroup vs. outgroup preferences, Kevin MacDonald, morality, North American New Right, reprints, reputation, Ricardo Duchesne, sociology | 5 Responses

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You Know You’re Right

Winston E. Bakewell

Mars, ca. 2nd century AD.

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You are here because you are convinced of the rightness of your ideas. This is not meant in a specific, epistemological sense; as in, your ideas have been verified by some kind of universal truth or that they are backed by data drawn from rigor, though these things could be applied to many of the ideas we hold on the Right. I mean that you are convinced enough of what you hold to be true that you are taking a risk in upholding it, even in the face of great adversaries. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, debate, deplatforming, discipline, North American New Right, objectivity, optimism, originals, rhetoric, self-righteousness, truth, Winston E. Bakewell | 5 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Eight

Derek Hawthorne

5,468 words

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

At first, we hear the sound of birds singing. The sound is pretty and harmless. Is it the lovebirds in the kitchen? Then we hear fluttering and flapping. This grows louder and louder and the pretty singing of a moment before is replaced by angry cawing and screeching. It is one of the most interesting scenes in the entire film. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, being, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, feminism, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, The Birds, the uncanny | 2 Responses

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Remembering Carl Schmitt
(July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985)

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany — where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.