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Tag: Romanticism

  • April 6, 2021 Amory Stern 1
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    Mihai Eminescu:
    Romania’s Morning Star

    4,994 words

    Of peasant ancestry on his father’s side and boasting aristocratic (boyar) maternal roots, the Romanian poet, prose writer, and editorialist Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) had not put his modest inherited wealth to waste. Educated in the German language since childhood, Eminescu was culturally — if not always geopolitically — an enthusiastic Germanophile. (more…)

  • January 15, 2021 Kathryn S. 23
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    Inheritors of the Earth:
    Port, Plain, & Mountain in Western Culture

    Caspar David Friedrich, Greifswald in Moonlight, 1817.

    9,130 words

    As men and women of the Right, we are searchers for Truth. We believe that by finding Truth and living by Truth, we might know Beauty, and we might know ourselves. Essence is our mission and with it, survival. And so this essay will try to surface and then sketch three fundamental “lifeways,” (more…)

  • December 17, 2020 Alex Graham 3
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    Remembering Ludwig van Beethoven
    (December 17, 1770-March 26, 1827)

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Beethoven, 2020.

    2,640 words

    Today is the 250th anniversary of the christening of Ludwig van Beethoven, a titan of classical music and one of the greatest composers of all time. Beethoven transformed every genre in which he wrote and singlehandedly changed the trajectory of classical music. Rooted in the Classical idiom of Mozart and Haydn, he paved the way for the Romantic era and influenced composers such as Brahms, Liszt, and Wagner. His works remain cornerstones of the classical repertoire. (more…)

  • December 10, 2020 Kathryn S. 12
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    No Country for Old Ghosts:
    A Literary Tour of Gothic America

    8,232 words

    As an American, I find European theories about this country and its character intriguing (or amusing) — particularly those formed from intimate experience. Of course, such theories presuppose that there is and has been such a thing as “the American people,” or “ethny” from which to draw an assessment. I submit two, not quite antithetical, but competing European judgments about the United States. (more…)

  • June 30, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

    Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.

    5,142 words

    The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members (more…)

  • May 14, 2020 Eumaios 6
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    Scientific Truth, Scientific Pragmatism, & Human History

    4,585 words

    An important question for those on the Dissident Right to ask is how humans ought to relate to nature; both their own “human nature” as well as the “outside” world. Depending on one’s religious beliefs, this might be the most important question there is. History seems to indicate two conventional approaches to this question. (more…)

  • May 6, 2020 Michael Walker 1
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    Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart
    Part Two: The Sacred

    4,445 words

    Why does Scruton not examine the role of Melot in Death-Devoted Heart more closely?

    Tristan und Isolde echoes themes from Romeo and Juliet and Othello, so it is unlikely that Wagner did not have both plays in mind when he composed his opera. The Othello theme is especially clear in the regrets expressed by King Marke that he could not clearly see, just as Othello could not clearly see. Melot, like Iago, faces death if he cannot make good the claim of adultery; (more…)

  • April 29, 2020 Michael Walker 1
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    Roger Scruton’s Death-Devoted Heart
    Part One: The Personal

    5,223 words

    Sir Roger Scruton, who died of cancer on January 12th, 2020 at the age of seventy-five, wrote more than fifty books, was the editor of the conservative publication The Salisbury Review, and in his final years was briefly chairman — dismissed and subsequently reinstated — of the Conservative Government’s “Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.”

    I once met Roger Scruton. He invited me to his flat in London in 1982 where I remember enjoying his excellent wine. (more…)

  • December 5, 2019 Greg Johnson
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    Evropan Edward Elgar

    1,568 slov

    English original here

    Evropan Edward Elgar: Vlastenec, Angličan a Evropan

    Edward Elgar (2. června 1857–23. února 1934) patří k čelním představitelům poslední generace evropských romantických skladatelů. K této generaci bývají řazeni mj. (more…)

  • July 16, 2018 James J. O'Meara 3
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    Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise:
    John Lauritsen’s The Shelley-Byron Men

    3,401 words

    John Lauritsen
    The Shelley-Byron Men: Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise 
    Pagan Press, 2017

    Ordinarily, I wouldn’t think of reviewing a book on Shelley, Byron & Co.; mainly because I know little about them, other than what used to be generally known among the educated (before English was replaced with gender studies and time off for anti-Trump demos), plus what I read from Camille Paglia.  (more…)

  • October 23, 2017 Asklepios 4
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    Friedrich Schleiermacher:
    The Father of Modern Theology & a Prophet of German Nationalism, Part 2

    4,506 words

    Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

    Schleiermacher’s Philosophy of Mind

    According to Schleiermacher, the task of philosophy is the “immersion of the Spirit into the innermost depths of itself and of things in order to fathom the relations of their [spirit and nature] being-together.”[1] Schleiermacher’s philosophy, like German idealism in general, was very influenced by, and a reaction to, the critical transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. (more…)

  • October 20, 2017 Asklepios 8
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    Friedrich Schleiermacher:
    The Father of Modern Theology & a Prophet of German Nationalism, Part 1

    4,148 words

    Part 1 of 2. Part 2 here.

    “I feel sure that Germany, the kernel of Europe, will arise once more in a new and beautiful state, but when this will happen, and whether the country will not first have to experience even greater difficulties […] God alone knows.” — Friedrich Schleiermacher, 1806[1]

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  • August 27, 2014 Christopher Pankhurst 5
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    On the Sublime & the Numinous

    Caspar_David_Friedrich_0714,193 words

    The words “sublime” and “numinous” have shifted in meaning somewhat over recent years. The word “sublime,” I presume, would now generally be interpreted to mean something of particularly great beauty, or an action particularly well executed. It would not be limited to a narrow usage but could be applied to any thing or action of particular excellence, perhaps with a slightly pretentious connotation of elegance.  (more…)

  • May 28, 2014 Robert Steuckers
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    Reflexões sobre a Estética e Figura Literária do Dândi

    Portrait-of-a-Young-Man-in-a-Top-Hat4,384 words

    English original: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

    Antes de entrar no assunto principal, eu gostaria de fazer três observações preliminares:

    Eu hesitei em aceitar seu convite para falar sobre a figura do dândi, pois esse tipo de questão não é meu tema principal de interesse.

    Eu finalmente aceitei porque redescobri um ensaio lúcido e magistral de Otto Mann, (more…)

  • February 8, 2013 T. E. Hulme 6
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    Romanticism & Classicism

    hulme2(1)7,106 words

    I want to maintain that after a hundred years of romanticism, we are in for a classical revival, and that the particular weapon of this new classical spirit, when it works in verse, will be fancy.[1] And in this I imply the superiority of fancy—not superior generally or absolutely, for that would be obvious nonsense, but superior in the sense that we use the word good in empirical ethics—good for something, superior for something. (more…)

  • January 14, 2013 Jonathan Bowden 4
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    Classical Modernism & the Art of the Radical Right

    Wyndham Lewis, "Red Duet," 1914

    Wyndham Lewis, “Red Duet,” 1914

    1,095 words

    Edited by Alex Kurtagić 

    Editor’s Note: 

    The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Heat.  (more…)

  • September 25, 2012 Kerry Bolton 6
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    T. S. Eliot, Part 1

    Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938

    5,352 words

    Part 1 of 2

    The First World War brought to a climax a cultural crisis in Western Civilization that had been developing for centuries: money overwhelmed tradition, as Spengler would have put it[1] (or, to resort to the language of Marx, the bourgeoisie supplanted the aristocracy).[2] Industrialization accentuated the process of commercialization, with its concomitant urbanization and the disruption of organic bonds and social cohesion. This has thrown societies into a state of perpetual flux, with culture reflecting that condition.

    It was—and is—a problem of the primacy of Capital. (more…)

  • August 31, 2012 Derek Hawthorne
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    Nacionalismo & Racialismo na Filosofia Alemã:
    Fichte, Hegel & os Românticos

    3,733 words

    English original here

    1 – Fichte e o Destino da Nação Alemã

    J. G. Fichte (1762-1814), o primeiro dos grandes idealistas alemães pós-kantianos, é uma figura importante na ascensão do nacionalismo alemão – e tem sido muitas vezes acusado de ser um dos pais fundadores do Nacional-Socialismo.

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  • August 20, 2012 Derek Hawthorne 20
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    Nationalism & Racialism in German Philosophy:
    Fichte, Hegel, & the Romantics

    Philipp Veit, "Germania," 1848

    Philipp Veit, “Germania,” 1848

    4,354 words

    Portuguese translation here

    1. Fichte and the Destiny of the German Nation

    J. G. Fichte (1762–1814), the first of the great post-Kantian German Idealists, is an important figure in the rise of German nationalism – and has often been accused of being one of the founding fathers of National Socialism.

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  • August 15, 2012 Robert Steuckers
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    Úvahy o estetické a kulturní postavě dandyho, část 2

    Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

    1,772 words

    English original here

    Poslání umělce podle Charlese Baudelaira

    Pro dandyho je nezbytné do současného barbarismu vetknout trochu estetiky. (more…)

  • July 17, 2012 Robert Steuckers 3
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    Paganism & Vitalism in
    Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 2

    Ludwig Fahrenkrog, “The Holy Fire”

    1,311 words

    Part 2 of 2

    Translated by Greg Johnson

    The Paganism of Hamsun and Lawrence

    If Hamsun and Lawrence carry out their desire to return to a natural ontology by rejecting rationalist intellectualism, this also implies an in-depth contestation of the Christian message. (more…)

  • July 16, 2012 Robert Steuckers 1
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    Paganism & Vitalism in
    Knut Hamsun & D. H. Lawrence, Part 1

    Knut Hamsun

    2,378 words

    Part 1 of 2

    Translated by Greg Johnson

    The Hungarian philologist Akos Doma, educated in Germany and the United States, has published a work of literary interpretation comparing the works of Knut Hamsun and D. H. Lawrence: (more…)

  • April 11, 2011 Greg Johnson 1
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    Elgar the European

    1,501 words

    Czech version here

    Edward Elgar (June 2, 1857–February 23, 1934) was a leading figure in the last generation of European Romantic composers, which includes Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943).

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  • August 12, 2010 Robert Steuckers
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    Reflections on the Aesthetic &
    Literary Figure of the Dandy, Part II

    Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867

    1,790 words

    Translated by Greg Johnson

    Part 2 of 3. Part I: here

    Translations: Czech, Portuguese

    The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire

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  • August 7, 2010 Oswald Spengler
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    Nietzsche & His Century

    5,404 words

    An address delivered on October 15, 1924, Nietzsche’s eightieth birthday, at the Nietzsche Archive, Weimar

    Looking back at the nineteenth century and letting its great men pass before the mind’s eye, we can observe an amazing thing about the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche, something that was hardly noticeable in his own time. (more…)

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