Tag Archives: tradition

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,” Read more …

Published: January 15, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ancient Greece, articles, borders, Carl Schmitt, cities, cosmopolitanism, culture, desire, folklore, folkways, geography, homelands, honor, imperialism, Kathryn S, Latin America, literature, Lord Byron, mountains, myth, North American New Right, originals, reason, Romanticism, rural life, the countryside, the Jewish question, the plains, the sublime, the supernatural, thumos, trade, tripartition, urban life | 20 Responses

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Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics:
Platonism

Collin Cleary

Plato and Aristotle, detail from Raphael’s The School of Athens, 1510-1511.

8,701 words

1. Introduction

In my essay “Heidegger Against the Traditionalists,” I sketched a critique of Guénon and Evola from a Heideggerian perspective. Although I raised several objections to Traditionalism, the crucial one was this: Guénon and Evola are thoroughly (and uncritically) invested in the Western metaphysical tradition. According to Heidegger, however, it is precisely the Western metaphysical tradition that is responsible for all the modern ills decried by the Traditionalists. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alētheia, ancient Greeks, anti-modernism, Aristotle, articles, being, Collin Cleary, concealment, Dasein, Edmund Husserl, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, myth, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, phusis, Plato, Platonism, presence, primordial metaphysics, Socrates, the Forms, Traditionalism, truth, Western philosophy | 13 Responses

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Traditional Conservatism Can Never Defeat The Enlightenment Left

Ricardo Duchesne

White students pondering over a Herbert Marcuse lecture on the “one-dimensional mind” of the white race.

1,364 words

No one knows Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861). He was a legal philosopher of Jewish parentage who converted to Christianity and became a defender of Prussian Lutheran conservatism against the imposition of Enlightenment values. He rejected Hegel’s argument Read more …

Published: December 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, conservatism, cultural Marxism, dogma, egalitarianism, ethnocentrism, evolutionary psychology, Friedrich Julius Stahl, G. W. F. Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, inequality, modernity, monarchism, North American New Right, philosophy, psychology, rationalism, reason, reprints, rhetoric, Ricardo Duchesne, science, the Enlightenment, the middle class, Traditionalism | 12 Responses

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Heidegger Against the Traditionalists

Collin Cleary

6,918 words

1. Introduction

Those on the New Right are bound together partly by shared intellectual interests. Ranking very high indeed on any list of those interests would be the works of Martin Heidegger and those of the Traditionalist [1] school, especially René Guénon and Julius Evola. My own work has been heavily influenced by both Heidegger and Traditionalism. Read more …

Published: December 11, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, being, Collin Cleary, Dasein, die Lichtung, empiricism, Julius Evola, knowing, Martin Heidegger, meaning, metaphysics, modernism, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, Platonism, primordial metaphysics, Rene Guénon, the clearing, Traditionalism, Western philosophy | 28 Responses

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The Final Straw

Fullmoon Ancestry

1,614 words

While traveling the past few weeks, I kept thinking about the upcoming 2020 US presidential election. More precisely, I kept wondering whether this election would be the final straw that breaks the camel’s back. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, articles, democracy, Edmund Burke, empire, France, Fullmoon Ancestry, North American New Right, originals, prejudice, revolution | 3 Responses

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Michaelmas:
Of Harvest Festivals & Holy Warriors

William de Vere

6,101 words

Come out, ’tis now September, the hunters’ moon’s begun,
And through the wheaten stubble we hear the frequent gun;
The leaves are turning yellow, and fading into red,
While the ripe and bearded barley is hanging down its head.

— “All Among the Barley,” British folk song Read more …

Published: September 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archangel Michael, aristocracy, articles, autumn, chivalry, Christianity, Christus Victor, feasts, festivals, feudalism, harvest, holy war, Knights Templar, Michaelmas, North American New Right, originals, paganism, religion, spirituality, syncretism, time, war, warrior ethics, William de Vere | 7 Responses

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Trevor Lynch

1,256 words

Yukio Mishima’s 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of his darkest works. Set in post-War Yokohama, it is the story of Fusako Kuroda, a thirty-three-year-old widow who runs a boutique selling Western luxury goods, and her thirteen-year-old son Noboru Kuroda. (See Alex Graham’s discussion of the novel here.)

Fusako’s world is entirely feminine, bourgeois, modern, and Western. She is also deeply lonely. Then she meets Ryuji Tsukazaki, the second-mate on a steamship. Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bourgeois society, class, England, gender, Japan, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, sex, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, thumos, Trevor Lynch, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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Living Monuments

William de Vere

Caspar David Friedrich, Wall at Dusk, 1837-40.

3,000 words

My ancestors arrived in the Tidewater region of this continent around 400 years ago, and lived and died almost entirely beneath the Mason-Dixon line. As a Catholic, a Southron, and an Anglo-American, I am filled with sorrow and impotent rage at the sight of my forebears being demonized by those who are so manifestly inferior to them. Read more …

Published: July 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestry, articles, environmentalism, life, monuments, nature, North American New Right, originals, self-actualization, spirituality, statues, thumos, time, William de Vere | 6 Responses

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Family Systems & History

F. Roger Devlin

8,561 words

Emmanuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus
Cambridge, England, and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019

Much of today’s dominant globalist ideology derives from development theory, a body of thought which shares with Marxism the view that economic relations are the basis of social life and sees the races of mankind as fundamentally equivalent beneath the superficial cultural differences which have arisen over history. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, authoritarianism, book reviews, capitalism, Catholicism, demographics, economics, education, Emmanuel Todd, essays, F. Roger Devlin, family, family dynamics, hierarchy, higher education, history, identity, individualism, industrialization, language, Lineages of Modernity, literacy, memory of places, modernity, monogamy, nationalism, North American New Right, patriarchy, Protestantism, religion, secularism, secularization, stem families, the nuclear family | 3 Responses

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Which Traditional Britain?

John Morgan

5,702 words

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, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism, United Kingdom, United States | 7 Responses

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Living in Accordance with Our Tradition

Dominique Venner

1,162 words

Translated by Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

Every great people owns a primordial tradition that is different from all the others. It is the past and the future, the world of the depths, the bedrock that supports, the source from which one may draw as one sees fit. It is the stable axis at the center of the turning wheel of change. As Hannah Arendt put it, it is the “authority that chooses and names, transmits and conserves, indicates where the treasures are to be found and what their value is.” Read more …

Published: October 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Dominique Venner, Julius Evola, living well, North American New Right, philosophy, Plato, Rene Guénon, reprints, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

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Le primordial et l’eternel :
La Tradition dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger et de Julius Evola

Michael O'Meara

Martin Heidegger

8,727 words

L’opposé de la tradition, dit l’historien Dominique Venner, n’est pas la modernité, une notion illusoire, mais le nihilisme [1]. D’après Nietzsche, qui développa le concept, le nihilisme vient avec la mort des dieux et « la répudiation radicale de [toute] valeur, sens et désirabilité » [2]. Read more …

Published: April 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, in French, in translation, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, on Evola, on Heidegger, originals, Parmenides, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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Game On:
Revenge of the Matriarchs

Matt Parrott

656 words

I was walking past WalMart’s aisle of literature when I noticed what appeared to be an entire section of books featuring hot Amish women longingly gazing out over the open plain. After a closer look, I realized that I had stumbled onto the new genre that I’ve being hearing about: Amish Porn. They’re a type of romance novel that take place in idyllic American communities. Read more …