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The Enslavement of Philosophy

Francisco Suárez.

668 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is an extract from Pierre Hadot’s excellent Qu’est-ce que la philosophie antique? (Paris: Gallimard, 1995, available in English as What is Ancient Philosophy?, pp. 381-84, under the heading “Philosophy as Servant of Theology.” The title is editorial.

Writing his Disputationes Metaphysicae in the last years of the sixteenth century, a work which would exert a considerable influence on many philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the scholastic author Francisco Suárez affirms:

Published: January 6, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right, philosophy, translations | Also tagged Aristotle, Christianity, Guillaume Durocher, Neoplatonism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Pierre Hadot, scholasticism | 3 Responses

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Christmas: Beauty in Life

Dominique Venner

395 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, beauty, Christmas, Dominique Venner, ethics, North American New Right, originals, Stoicism | 1 Response

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Trump: Revolution or Simulacrum?
Part 1: The People’s Revolt

Guillaume Faye

2,107 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States could be an American and global earthquake, something unprecedented. Or a huge flop and an enormous disappointment for the groups that elected him. An analysis in three parts, of which this is the first.

The Victory of Populism

Published: December 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Trump, France, Guillaume Faye, North American New Right, originals, populism | 1 Response

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Time for Tolkien

David Engels

537 words

Translated by Margot Metroland

We are in an epoch in which numerous religious, ethnic, or sexual groups are risking community-implosion by trying to impose their own values on everyone else. A time in which a certain politician we shall not name Read more …

Published: December 5, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Belgium, Catherine Moureaux, conservatism, David Engels, hierarchy, J. R. R. Tolkien, monarchy, North American New Right, originals, political correctness | Comments closed

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Mirror for Princes

Frederick the Great

Charles-Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1728-1793)

1,683 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

This text was addressed to Duke Charles-Eugene of Württemberg on February 6, 1744, on the occasion of his turning 16 and the end of his regency as a minor, to advise him on how to be a good monarch. Charles-Eugene was Frederick the Great’s nephew-in-law and had been raised in part at his court in Prussia. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charles-Eugene Duke of Württemberg, Frederick the Great, Guillaume Durocher, Mirrors for Princes, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy | Comments closed

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Hitler in the German Consciousness

Emil Cioran

968 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

Translated from the French. Improvements from the original Romanian are therefore welcome.

No politician in the world today inspires as much sympathy and admiration in me as Hitler. There is something irresistible about the destiny of this man, Read more …

Published: October 24, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, dictatorship, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, oratory, originals | Comments closed

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Ode to the Captain

Emil Cioran

1,364 words

Corneliu Codreanu

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

Emil Cioran was a Romanian philosopher who, before becoming a noted esthete of nihilism in the Parisian literary scene, dared to be a hopeful fascist. Translated from the French. Improvements from the original Romanian are therefore welcome. The title is editorial.

Published: October 12, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Corneliu Codreanu, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, Iron Guard, North American New Right, originals, Romania | Comments closed

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The SS, Guard & Order of the Revolution of the Swastika

Julius Evola

3,713 words

Trans. anonymous

One of the most interesting, significant and perhaps least known creations of the German National Socialist revolution is the so-called SS corps. Read more …

Published: September 13, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, chivalry, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, the SS, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Țuțea on Equality

Petre Țuțea

151 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

Petre Țuțea was a Romanian anti-communist dissident. The following is one of the entries from his popular dictionary of aphorisms 322 de vorbe memorabile ale lui Petre Țuțea (“322 Memorable Words from Petre Țuțea,” Bucharest: Humanitas, 2009 [1993]), 45.

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Published: September 7, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged equality, freedom, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, Petre Țuțea, Romania | Comments closed

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A “Castle of the Order”

Julius Evola

At Ordensburg Sonthofen

1,535 words

Trans. anonymous

Krössinsee (Pomerania), August 1939

In a kind of immense field opening up in the dense and unbroken mass of the Nordic forest, against the backdrop of the metallic colors of two large lakes, under a sky made particularly lofty by this constant horizontality and straightness, which, so to speak, constitutes the style of this Pomeranian landscape, stands a group of buildings. They are a singular mixture of the primordial, the archaic, and the modern. Read more …