Tag Archives: the Counter-Enlightenment

Giambattista Vico

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Author’s Note:

This is the transcript by V.S. of my speech “Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” given at The London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. I have heavily edited it, rewriting it in places. I want to thank Jez Turner and The London Forum team for a memorable event.

Today I’m going to talk about a topic that’s somewhat esoteric. Read more …

Published: April 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, Darwinism, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, progress., religion, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 94
Vico & the New Right

Greg Johnson

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This is my lecture “Giambattista Vico and Modern Anti-Liberalism,” delivered at the London Forum on Saturday, September 27, 2014. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged conservatism, Counter-Currents Radio, cyclical history, Darwinism, duty, Epicureanism, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Sorel, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, myth, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, podcasts, progress., religion, the Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism, warrior ethics | 5 Responses

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 2

Mark Dyal

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“With Platonism, philosophy becomes a police operation.” – Miguel de Beistegui[1]

The Affect of Truth

Published: April 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, nominalism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Platonism, postmodernism | Comments closed

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 1

Mark Dyal

Left: Gilles Deleuze, 1925–1995; right: Félix Guattari, 1930–1992

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“A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.” – Gilles Deleuze[1]

It Begins with Nietzsche

Published: March 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism | 21 Responses

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Nacionalismo & Racialismo na Filosofia Alemã:
Fichte, Hegel & os Românticos

Derek Hawthorne

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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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Nationalism & Racialism in German Philosophy:
Fichte, Hegel, & the Romantics

Derek Hawthorne

Philipp Veit, “Germania,” 1848

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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.