Tag Archives: René Descartes

Mr. Gurdjieff

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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, philosophy, subjectivity, technology, the ego, the Self, wakefulness | 11 Responses

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Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part II

Ricardo Duchesne

Representatives of two stages of mental development: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Why did the West rise to become the most powerful civilization, the progenitor of modernity, the culture with the most prodigious creators? The answers are plenty. But it may be that a child psychologist, Jean Piaget, has offered the best theoretical framework to explain the difference between the West and the Rest. Read more …

Published: October 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancient Greeks, Aristotle, articles, Council of European Canadians, evolutionary psychology, North American New Right, racial differences, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne | 6 Responses

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Suddenly, I Love the French

Jef Costello

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A few years ago, a friend of mine spent a summer in the south of France with his daughter, who was in grade school at the time. Unfortunately, the daughter caught a bug toward the end of their stay, and my friend made multiple trips to the local pharmacy trying to find the right medicine for her. His French is imperfect, so he struggled to make himself understood by the druggist. Read more …

Published: May 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged France, Front National, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jef Costello, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals | 12 Responses

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Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

Jonathan Bowden

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Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following is excerpted from Jonathan Bowden’s Skin, a book he wrote in the early 1990s. The text has been lightly edited, mainly for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

In Samuel Beckett’s work . . . , which has become emblematic of the modern condition, Read more …

Published: March 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, book excerpts, drama, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, nihilism, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints | 1 Response

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Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 3

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976

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Part 1 here, Part 2 here

In ancient and medieval philosophy, “to be” meant to be an enduring presence, the Eternal Being being God. For moderns, “it” (the enduring presence) becomes a being, an object, in time and space or else a self-conscious subject.

Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 2

Michael O'Meara

Immanuel Kant, 1724–1804

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Part 1 here, Part 3 here

Immanuel Kant, the first to philosophize the “question of freedom,” approaches the world like Descartes. He begins with Cartesianism’s dehistoricized, peopleless subject, which is seen as an “ends in itself,” something that is to be “freed” for the sake of its “self-assured self-legislation.”

Liberalism as the Ideology of Consummate Meaninglessness, Part 1

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976

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Part 2 here, Part 3 here

They’re killing us with their freedom.

Every dissolution of social order, every assault on the family, the unrelenting denigration of authority and heritage, and now our biological replacement by the Third World’s refuse–all justified, legislated, and celebrated in freedom’s hallowed name.