Tag Archives: Rene Guénon

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, philosophy, post-colonialism, postmodernism, progress., Traditionalism | 18 Responses

The Purgative Fantasy

William de Vere

Albertus Pictor, Death Playing Chess, 1480-90.

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There is something sinister in the springtime this year. Rather than a serving as a yearly reminder of rebirth and natural beauty, the blooming trees and emergent grasses wear the face of some ancient enemy, awoken from its long slumber. The spreading pestilence makes one long for the dormancy and stasis of winter.

This atmosphere of dread has infected every dimension of our lives. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged accelerationism, apocalypse, articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, ecology, extinction, Kali Yuga, nature, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, religion, Savitri Devi, William de Vere | 5 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 262
Nostalgia for a Lost Future:
A Conversation with Xurious

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson talks to composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Christianity, Counter-Currents Radio, deplatforming, electronic music, elites, futurism, Greg Johnson, hierarchy, interviews, Julius Evola, liberalism, meditation, mysticism, nostalgia, podcasts, social media, sovereignty, Traditionalism, vaporwave | 11 Responses

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

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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, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism | 5 Responses

Notas sobre Heidegger e Evola

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Versão em inglês aqui, versão em espanhol aqui

Recentemente, surgiram evidências que provam que Martin Heidegger leu Evola.

Em um artigo intitulado “Ein spirituelles Umsturzprogramm” (“Um programa de revolução espiritual”), publicado no Frankfurter allgemeine Zeitung, em 30 de dezembro de 2015, Tomás Vasek comenta o importante documento descoberto.

The Great Parody:
Some Remarks on the Phenomenon of “Virtual Reality”

Jonatán Gődény

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Translated from the Hungarian by Zsolt Sáfián

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of “virtual reality” – its increasingly dominant social role and effects, and its symbolism will be surveyed. Read more …

Published: October 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, degeneration, North American New Right, originals, reality, Traditionalism | 8 Responses

Mark Sedgwick’s Key Thinkers of the Radical Right

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Mark Sedgwick, ed.
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Mark Sedgwick is an English scholar of Western Esotericism and Islam. He is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Carl Schmitt, Daniel Friberg, Ernst Junger, European New Right, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Jack Donovan, Jared Taylor, Julius Evola, Kevin MacDonald, Martin Heidegger, Mencius Moldbug, metapolitics, neoreaction, New Right, NRX, Oswald Spengler, Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Richard Spencer, Samuel Francis, Traditionalism, white nationalism | 24 Responses

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

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Published: November 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism | 2 Responses

An Esoteric Commentary on the Volsung Saga, Part I

Collin Cleary

A carving depicting Sigurd sucking the dragon’s blood off his thumb, from a stave church in Setesdal, Norway.

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Part II here

The purpose of this essay is to offer an account of the hidden meaning of the Volsung Saga (Völsunga saga). In drawing out this meaning, I will approach the saga from a Traditionalist standpoint, broadly speaking; i.e., from the standpoint of Guénon and Evola. I will touch on some details concerning the relation of the saga to other sources, but I do not aim to provide anything like the sort of account a historian or philologist might give. Read more …

Published: August 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Germanic paganism, Germanic tradition, Julius Evola, Norse sagas, North American New Right, originals, paganism, Richard Wagner, Volsung Saga, Volsunga Saga, Wotan | 8 Responses

What Would Evola Do?

John Morgan

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The follow is the text of the talk that Counter-Currents editor John Morgan delivered to The New York Forum on May 20, 2017.

Tonight I thought I’d talk about Julius Evola, since yesterday (May 19) was his 119th birthday, and I have overseen the publication of many of Evola’s texts in English. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, German Idealism, Italian fascism, Italy, John Morgan, Julius Evola, Kali Yuga, National Socialism, North American New Right, racialism, reprints, Second World War, The New York Forum, Traditionalism | 9 Responses

Taunton on Tantra:
A Guide for the Perplexed Westerner

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Gwendolyn Taunton
Tantric Traditions: Gods, Rituals, & Esoteric Teachings in the Kali Yuga
Manticore Press, 2018

Mention “tantra” and almost any Westerner, no matter how sophisticated, thinks of weekend seminars on how to improve your sex life, with endorsements from the likes of Sting. Read more …

Published: April 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain Daniélou, book reviews, Gwendolyn von Taunton, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Kali Yuga, North American New Right, Tantrism, Traditionalism | 1 Response

Which Traditional Britain?

John Morgan

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The following is the text of a talk that was delivered at the annual conference of the Traditional Britain Group that was held on October 24, 2015. The video is here.

The problem with talking about tradition as applied to our present world, at least within the context of a people or a country with a long history, is determining what, exactly, tradition is, and which tradition to draw upon. Read more …

Published: January 25, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Britain, British Empire, Dominique Venner, identity, John Morgan, Julius Evola, mass immigration, North American New Right, reprints, tradition, Traditionalism, United Kingdom, United States | 9 Responses

Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate?

Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language of Christian theology; not just in my opinion today, but among his Episcopal peers at the time (one bishop even called it “the most important book on religion in this century”[1]), Read more …

Published: January 5, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 3 Responses

Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One

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Part 1 of 2

Alan W. Watts
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971
Kindle, 2016

“For God is not niggardly in his self-revelation; he exposes himself right before our eyes.” — Alan Watts Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Anglicanism, articles, book reviews, Brideshead Revisited, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, Frithjof Schuon, James O'Meara, mysticism, New Age, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of history, Protestantism, Traditionalism, Vedanta | 10 Responses

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

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Published: November 15, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism | 1 Response

What Would Evola Do?

John Morgan

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The follow is the text of the talk that Counter-Currents editor John Morgan delivered to The New York Forum on Saturday.

Tonight I thought I’d talk about Julius Evola, since yesterday (May 19) was his 119th birthday, and I have overseen the publication of many of Evola’s texts in English. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, German Idealism, Italian fascism, Italy, John Morgan, Julius Evola, Kali Yuga, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, racialism, Second World War, The New York Forum, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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

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Published: November 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

“Our Hemingway, Only Better“
Lovecraft Illuminated

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James Arthur Anderson
Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
Introduction by S. T. Joshi.
Wildside Press, 2014

“Drawing the line between concrete detail and trans-dimensional suggestion is a very ticklish job.” — H. P. Lovecraft[1]

René Guénon & Integral Traditionalism

Julius Evola

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Translated by G. A. Malvicini

Elsewhere (in La Destra, in May 1972), we have discussed the necessary relationship of an authentic, non-makeshift Right with the concept of Tradition. In the sense discussed there, references to authors with a traditional orientation may be useful in dealing with certain complex problems. Here, however, we wish to provide an account of the ideas of René Guénon (1886-1951), who was regarded as the proponent of “integral Traditionalism.” Read more …

Published: June 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholicism, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religion, esotericism, Freemasonry, Julius Evola, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Sufism, Traditionalism, translations | 8 Responses

Batman začíná

Trevor Lynch

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English original here

Film Inception režiséra Christophera Nolana mě ohromil, a tak jsem se rozhodl dát jeho staršímu počinu Batman začíná (2005) další šanci. Napoprvé se mi nelíbil. Vůbec. Musel jsem však být při sledování něčím rozptýlený, protože napodruhé mi přišel skvělý. Nolan odložil kýčovitý styl předchozích snímků o Batmanovi a soustředí se na vývoj postav a jejich motivace, což film Batman začíná a i jeho pokračování Temný rytíř dělá psychologicky temným a intelektuálně i emocionálně strhujícím. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Batman Begins, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, cyclical history, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, Hellboy II, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, Miguel Serrano, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Savitri Devi, superheroes, Traditionalism, Trevor Lynch | Leave a comment

The Wisdom of the East?

Martin Aurelio

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Inspired by the unique revaluation of Alan Watts on Counter-Currents, I want to share my reflections on two decades of studying the “wisdom of the East” which Watts helped to popularize in his lifetime.

Indeed, I remember when I read Psychotherapy East and West, my first Watts book and also one of the first books I read about Eastern philosophy and religion. Read more …

Published: May 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, articles, Confucius, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religion, European identity, Indo-Europeans, Martin Aurelio, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Taoism, Traditionalism | 13 Responses

The Secret of Trump’s A Peale:
Traditionalism Triumphant!
Or: He’s Our Evola, Only Better?

Norman Vincent Peale

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“Personally, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling.” — Adlai Stevenson on hearing Norman Vincent Peale was supporting Eisenhower.

“I know that with God’s help I can sell vacuum cleaners.” — Rev. Norman Vincent Peale Read more …

Published: March 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Trump, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Neville Goddard, New Thought, Norman Vincent Peale, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, self-help, Traditionalism | 2 Responses

Notas sobre Heidegger y Evola

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English original here

Evidencia ha surgido recientemente demostrando que Martin Heidegger leyó a Evola. En un artículo titulado “Ein spirituelles Umsturzprogramm” (“Un Programa de Revolución Espiritual”), publicado en Frankfurter allgemeine Zeitung, el 30 de diciembre de 2015, Tomás Vasek comenta el importante documento descubierto. Read more …

Published: February 14, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race, Carl Schmitt, in Spanish, in translation, Julius Evola, metaphysics, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Thomas Vasek, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

Notes on Heidegger & Evola

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Translations: Portuguese, Polish, Spanish

Evidence has recently emerged that Martin Heidegger read Julius Evola. In an article entitled “Ein spirituelles Umsturzprogramm” (“A Spiritual Revolution Program”) published in the Frankfurter allgemeine Zeitung, December 30, 2015, Thomas Vasek reports on an important document he discovered: Read more …

Published: February 10, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, biological race, Carl Schmitt, Julius Evola, metaphysics, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Thomas Vasek, Traditionalism | 22 Responses

Sumisión de Michel Houellebecq

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English original here

Michel Houellebecq
Submission: A Novel
Trans. Lorin Stein
London: Heinemann, 2015

Michel Houellebecq es uno de los novelistas más finos, de los actualmente vivos. Su novela más reciente, Sumisión, está ahora en inglés. Read more …

Published: February 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Christianity, France, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Islam, Michel Houellebecq, National Front, North American New Right, originals, Submission, the Jewish question, the Muslim question, Traditionalism, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Tradiţie şi Revoluţie

Edouard Rix

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English version here

Pentru ce luptăm noi? Orice soldat politic trebuie să-şi pună această întrebare. Cu toate că poate părea contradictoriu, suntem înclinaţi în a răspunde că luptăm pentru Tradiţie şi Revoluţie.

Tradiţia

Published: December 20, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Edouard Rix, in Romanian, in translation, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, revolution, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

Michel Houellebecq: Submission

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Michel Houellebecq patrí v súčasnosti k najlepším románopiscom. Jeho posledný román Submission práve vychádza i v angličtine. Po jeho prečítaní sa potvrdilo moje dlhodobé podozrenie, že Houellebecq je mužom Pravice – či už si to prizná alebo nie.

Houellebecq je dlhodobo jedným z najdrsnejších kritikov liberálnej dekadencie a pokrytectva. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Christianity, France, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, in Slovak, in translation, Islam, Michel Houellebecq, National Front, North American New Right, reprints, Submission, the Jewish question, the Muslim question, Traditionalism, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Innocence des musulmans, culpabilité des juifs, intérêts des Blancs

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A partir du 11 septembre 2012, les ambassades et d’autres installations US dans le monde musulman ont été ciblées par des foules en colère protestant contre la politique et l’influence américaines. Read more …

Published: December 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, North American New Right, originals, the Counter-Jihad Movement, the Jewish question, the Muslim question, Traditionalism, white nationalism | Leave a comment

Soumission de Michel Houellebecq