Tag Archives: the Enlightenment

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This week Greg Johnson talks to video blogger Endeavour on topics ranging from Thomas Hobbes to Steven Pinker to Pixar movies, answers questions from our Entropy donors, Read more …

Published: April 24, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, interviews, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, podcasts, religion, Steven Pinker | 3 Responses

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Our Marx, Only Better:
Vico & Modern Anti-Liberalism

Greg Johnson

Giambattista Vico

5,481 words

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 Counter-Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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Thoughts on the European New Right, Part 3

John Law

2,926 words

Part 3 of 4

The Power of Reason

The European New Right (ENR) agrees with Pareto, Spengler, and Schmitt that the West took a wrong turn in the eighteenth century by advocating a program for the enlightenment of the human mind Read more …

Published: December 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, critical theory, European New Right, Frankfurt School, G. W. F. Hegel, John Law, Max Horkheimer, North American New Right, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, reason, reprints, Vilfredo Pareto | 1 Response

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Anissimov’s Critique of Democracy

Claus Brinker

2,047 words

Michael Anissimov
A Critique of Democracy: A Guide for Neoreactionaries
Zenit Books, 2015

Neoreaction is a philosophical movement, which emerged from social media in the past few years, seemingly in response to the hordes of social justice warriors that haunt the realms of message boards, blogs, and Twitter. Read more …

Published: March 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Claus Brinker, democracy, equality, fascism, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, hierarchy, leadership, monarchy, neoreaction, North American New Right, NRX, originals, political theory, the Dark Enlightenment, the Jewish question | 29 Responses

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Nenávisť zrodená na Sinaji:
Assmannov Mojžiš Egyptský

Greg Johnson

2,113 words

English original here

Jan Assmann
Mojžiš Egyptský: Spomienka Egypta v západnom monoteizme
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Keď som prvýkrát čítal knihu Mojžiš Egyptský od Jana Assmanna v júni 1997, tak išlo o skúsenosť, ktorá zmenila môj život. Mojžiš Egyptský patrí k najvzácnejším akademickým knihám : odvážnym i vzrušujúcim zároveň. Read more …

Published: January 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akhnaton, articles, book reviews, Christianity, cosmotheism, Freemasonry, Greg Johnson, hermeticism, in Slovak, in translation, Islam, Jan Assmann, Judaism, monotheism, Moses, Moses the Egyptian, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, religion, religious tolerance, Rene Guénon, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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The Straussian Assault on America’s European Heritage

Ricardo Duchesne

3,472 words

Grant Havers
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy: A Conservative Critique
Northern Illinois University Press, 2013

A main pillar sustaining the practice of mass immigration is that Western nations are inherently characterized by a “civic” form of national membership. Western nations express the “natural” wishes of “man as man” for equal rights, rule of law, freedom of expression, and private property. Read more …

Published: December 4, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Canada, Christianity, civic nationalism, classical liberalism, conservatism, ethnonationalism, Frank Salter, Leo Strauss, nationalism, neoconservatism, North American New Right, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, the American founding, the Jewish question, the United States | 5 Responses

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The European New Right & its Animus against Western Civ

Ricardo Duchesne

3,389 words

My knowledge of the European New Right (ENR) is very scarce, no more than a few short articles and three books: Guillaume Faye’s Why We Fight, Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory, and Pierre Krebs’ Fighting for the Essence, Western Ethnosuicide or European Renaissance? I found Faye’s metapolitical dictionary substantively insightful and Dugin’s dissection of liberalism penetrating.

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

Greg Johnson

54:49 / 99 words

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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 Counter-Enlightenment, the social sciences, Traditionalism, warrior ethics | 5 Responses

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La haine née sur le Sinaï :
Moïse l’Egyptien, par Jan Assmann

Greg Johnson

2,775 words

English original here

Jan Assmann
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997

[Tr. fr.: Jan Assmann, Moïse l’Egyptien, Paris, Flammarion, coll. Champs, 2003.]

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Now in Stock!
Proofs of a Conspiracy

John Robison

429 words

John Robison
Proofs of a Conspiracy
Edited with an Introduction by Alex Kurtagić
Abergele: The Palingenesis Project, 2014
530 pages

hardcover only: $50

Published: July 2, 2014 | Posted in Legacy Book Product, North American New Right | Also tagged conspiracy theories, Freemasonry, the French Revolution | Comments closed

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El odio nacido en el Sinaí:
Moisés el Egipcio de Jan Assmann

Greg Johnson

2,684 words

English original here

Jan Assmann
Moises el Egipcio
Translated by Javier Alonso López
Madrid: Oberon, 2003

Cuando leí por primera vez Moisés el Egipcio de Jan Assmann en Junio de 1997, fue una experiencia que cambió mi vida. Read more …

Published: June 30, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akhnaton, articles, book reviews, Christianity, cosmotheism, Freemasonry, Greg Johnson, hermeticism, in Spanish, in translation, Islam, Jan Assmann, Judaism, monotheism, Moses, Moses the Egyptian, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, religion, religious tolerance, Rene Guénon, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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The Hatred Born on Sinai:
Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian

Greg Johnson

2,520 words

Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish

Jan Assmann
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997

When I first read Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian in June of 1997, it was a life-changing experience. Moses the Egyptian belongs to the rarest genre of academic books: the bold and exciting ones. Read more …

Published: June 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akhnaton, articles, book reviews, Christianity, cosmotheism, Freemasonry, Greg Johnson, hermeticism, Islam, Jan Assmann, Judaism, monotheism, Moses, Moses the Egyptian, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, pantheism, philosophy, religion, religious tolerance, Rene Guénon, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | 47 Responses

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Hitler as Enlightenment Intellectual:
The Enduring Allure of Hitlerism

Mark Weber

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

2,410 words

Lawrence Birken
Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995.

A specter is haunting the world — the specter of Hitlerism. That, in short, is the stern warning of this provocative book, written by an Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University (Indiana), and published by Praeger, a leading US academic publisher.