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Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 2

Max Weber

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Part 1 here

The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Present Age

Not only does Strauss claim that historicism is a healthy reaction to the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern world, in the next section of his essay, he also attributes this bankruptcy to non-historicist causes.

First, Strauss talks about Max Weber’s Learning and Science as Vocation. He specifically objects to Weber’s claim that reason cannot speak about the ultimate aims of life: Read more …

Published: May 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy | 2 Responses

Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 1

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Part 1 of 2

Leo Strauss is widely known as a critic of historicism and an advocate of classical philosophy. Historicism holds that philosophical ideas are relative to culture, whereas classical philosophy aims for knowledge of nature, which is not relative to culture. But what is Strauss’s own point of view? Does he base his arguments on historicist or classical philosophical premises? Read more …

Published: May 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, hermeneutics, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, phenomenology, philosophy | 3 Responses

Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

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Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustin, 1645-1650

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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 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, truth | 4 Responses

Rashomon & Realism

Trevor Lynch

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Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) is commonly found on lists of the world’s greatest movies, and deservedly so. Rashomon features avant-garde narrative techniques (flashbacks, multiple points of view), dynamic black-and-white cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa, compelling Ravel-like music by Fumio Hayasaka, subtle and intensely dramatic performances, and a complex but tightly edited script, all combined into a fast-paced 88-minute masterpiece with an emotionally devastating climax. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, articles, Buddhism, compassion, honor, lying, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, realism, Trevor Lynch | 9 Responses

The Essence of the Left

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of Richard Spencer’s Vanguard Podcast interview of Jonathan Bowden about the Left. You can listen to the podcast here.

Richard Spencer: Hello, everyone! Today, it is a great pleasure to welcome to the program Jonathan Bowden. Read more …

Published: August 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christianity, Communism, egalitarianism, Freemasonry, French Revolution, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, Max Stirner, North American New Right, originals, Richard Spencer, the left, utopianism | 3 Responses

Carl Schmitt sobre la Tiranía de los Valores

Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon, 1624

Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus y Solon, 1624

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English original here

Los dos ensayos de Carl Schmitt sobre “La Tiranía de los Valores” (1959 y 1967) son típicos de su trabajo. Contienen simples e iluminadoras ideas las cuales, sin embargo, son complicadas de poner en conjunto porque Schmitt las presenta sólo a través de conversaciones complejas con otros pensadores y escuelas de pensamiento. Read more …

Published: February 25, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservatism, David Hume, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Max Scheler, Max Weber, moral philosophy, Nicolai Hartmann, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, skepticism | Leave a comment

Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

2,587 words

Published: December 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, truth | 2 Responses

Tirania valorilor

Carl Schmitt

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Jeanne Argent, Alice Through the Looking Glass

English version here

Nota editorului:

Textul următor, scris în 1967, este unul din cele două eseuri publicate de Carl Schmitt sub titlul „The Tyranny of Values.” Ambele au fost reluate în Die Tyrannei der Werte (Hamburg: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 1979). Traducerea este din The Tyranny of Values, iar traducător este Simona Drăghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1996), traducere care este dificil de găsit[1].

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Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

2,587 words

Published: December 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, truth | 2 Responses

Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

Dugin contra el Racismo

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Traducción por A. Garrido.

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Dugin on the Subject of Politics

Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

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A agent of chaos: Alexander Dugin with the chaos star, symbol of Eurasianism[1]

An agent of chaos: Alexander Dugin with the chaos star, symbol of Eurasianism[1]

Dugin’s Social Constructionism

The claim that there is no biological basis for the concept of race, or that it is not useful in explaining contemporary reality, is of course patently false. But Dugin follows postmodern thinkers like Foucault and Althusser in arguing that not only race, but all political subjects are constructs. Read more …

Published: September 12, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, cultural relativism, Eurasianism, Fourth Political Theory, Giuliano Adriano Malvicini, Islam, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, social constructionism, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 3 Responses

Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

Dugin Contra Racism

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Spanish translation here

Most White Nationalists are aware at this point that Alexander Dugin is not one of us. Dugin has stated that he views race as a social construct. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, biological race differences, cannibalism, cultural relativism, Eurasianism, Fourth Political Theory, Giuliano Adriano Malvicini, Islam, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, racism, social constructionism, white nationalism | 12 Responses

Leo Strauss, the Conservative Revolution, & National Socialism, Part 3

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Part 3 of 3

Editor’s Note:

Leo Strauss

In the previous installment of this series, I examined Leo Strauss’s argument that the roots of what he called “German nihilism” — including National Socialism — were not nihilistic. Instead, it is rooted in a moral critique of the modern world. In this installment, I examine his argument that these non-nihilistic motives gave rise to nihilism because of certain contingent historical circumstances. Read more …

Published: August 8, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, Greg Johnson, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Paul Gottfried, philosophy, the Jewish question | 13 Responses

Carl Schmitt on the Tyranny of Values

Gerrit van Honthorst, Croesus and Solon, 1624

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Spanish translation here

Carl Schmitt’s two essays on “The Tyranny of Values” (1959 and 1967) are typical of his work. They contain simple and illuminating ideas which are nevertheless quite difficult to piece together because Schmitt presents them only through complex conversations with other thinkers and schools of thought. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservatism, David Hume, Greg Johnson, Max Scheler, Max Weber, moral philosophy, moralism, Nicolai Hartmann, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, skepticism | 7 Responses

The Tyranny of Values, 1967

Carl Schmitt

6,572 words

Trans. Simona Draghici, Romanian translation here

Jeanne Argent, Alice Through the Looking Glass

Editor’s Note:

The following text, which was written in 1967, is one of two essays Carl Schmitt published under the title “The Tyranny of Values.” Both were reprinted in Carl Schmitt, Die Tyrannei der Werte (Hamburg: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 1979). The translation is from Carl Schmitt, The Tyranny of Values, ed. and trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1996), which is out of print and very hard to find. If anyone knows the translator, please put me in contact.

The Tyranny of Values, 1959

Carl Schmitt

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The Reflections of a Jurist upon the Philosophy of Values Dedicated to Those who Were at Ebrach in 1959

Trans. Simona Draghici

Editor’s Note: Read more …

Published: July 9, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, law, Martin Heidegger, Max Scheler, Max Weber, moral philosophy, moralism, Nicolai Hartmann, nihilism, North American New Right, phenomenology, philosophy, reprints, translations, values | 1 Response

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 81
The Pursuit of Happiness
Objectivity, Relativism, & Well-Being

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Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Read more …

Published: January 8, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, ethics, Greg Johnson, happiness, living well, morality, objectivity, philosophy, Plato, podcasts, Socrates, The Pursuit of Happiness | 4 Responses

Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily

Philippe de Champaigne, “Saint Augustin,” 1645-1650

2,587 words

Published: December 23, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authenticity, Christmas, ethics, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals, Parmenides, philosophy, truth | 5 Responses