Author: Daniel S. Forrest
Publisher: Arktos
ISBN: 1907166947
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
We are at a crucial point in time: a moment of transition as important as the emergence of Homo sapiens, or the beginning of civilisation after the Neolithic Revolution. Paradoxically, the triumph of the West - also called 'globalisation' - means the death of Europe and European man. Our destiny hangs between two options: either to complete the triumph of the egalitarian conception of the world, which will bring about the end of history, or to promote a historical regeneration. Nietzsche prophesied that the Earth will eventually belong to either the last man or to the superman. There are no other alternatives.
Suprahumanism
Author: Daniel S. Forrest
Publisher: Arktos
ISBN: 1907166947
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
We are at a crucial point in time: a moment of transition as important as the emergence of Homo sapiens, or the beginning of civilisation after the Neolithic Revolution. Paradoxically, the triumph of the West - also called 'globalisation' - means the death of Europe and European man. Our destiny hangs between two options: either to complete the triumph of the egalitarian conception of the world, which will bring about the end of history, or to promote a historical regeneration. Nietzsche prophesied that the Earth will eventually belong to either the last man or to the superman. There are no other alternatives.
Publisher: Arktos
ISBN: 1907166947
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
We are at a crucial point in time: a moment of transition as important as the emergence of Homo sapiens, or the beginning of civilisation after the Neolithic Revolution. Paradoxically, the triumph of the West - also called 'globalisation' - means the death of Europe and European man. Our destiny hangs between two options: either to complete the triumph of the egalitarian conception of the world, which will bring about the end of history, or to promote a historical regeneration. Nietzsche prophesied that the Earth will eventually belong to either the last man or to the superman. There are no other alternatives.
Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy
Author: A. James McAdams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000431908
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book is the first systematic analysis of the efforts of a broad range of contemporary far-right thinkers to popularize their critiques of liberal-democratic norms and institutions and make their ideas the subjects of sustained political and academic debate. The book focuses on outspoken thinkers in western and eastern Europe, Russia, the United States, Canada, and Australia. They include Alain de Benoist, Guillaume Faye, Götz Kubitschek, Pat Buchanan, Fróði Midjord, Jason Jorjani, contributors to the online magazine Quillette, and the elusive personality known as the Bronze Age Pervert. The book explores the diverse intellectual foundations of these thinkers’ positions, the similarities and differences in their ideas, and their prospects for influencing attitudes about democratic politics within their respective countries. It examines diverse movements and schools of thought, including the European New Right, Paleoconservatism, the Alt-right, Identitarianism, White nationalism, and antifeminism. Providing a much-needed global perspective, this book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of populism, right-wing extremism, identity politics, fascism, racism, and conservatism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000431908
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book is the first systematic analysis of the efforts of a broad range of contemporary far-right thinkers to popularize their critiques of liberal-democratic norms and institutions and make their ideas the subjects of sustained political and academic debate. The book focuses on outspoken thinkers in western and eastern Europe, Russia, the United States, Canada, and Australia. They include Alain de Benoist, Guillaume Faye, Götz Kubitschek, Pat Buchanan, Fróði Midjord, Jason Jorjani, contributors to the online magazine Quillette, and the elusive personality known as the Bronze Age Pervert. The book explores the diverse intellectual foundations of these thinkers’ positions, the similarities and differences in their ideas, and their prospects for influencing attitudes about democratic politics within their respective countries. It examines diverse movements and schools of thought, including the European New Right, Paleoconservatism, the Alt-right, Identitarianism, White nationalism, and antifeminism. Providing a much-needed global perspective, this book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of populism, right-wing extremism, identity politics, fascism, racism, and conservatism.
Regenerative Politics
Author: Emma Planinc
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231560990
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Critics of liberal democracy from both the left and right view rights not as protectors of freedom but as impediments to self-determination and call for radically regenerative political alternatives. Liberals respond to these challenges by reasserting that universal rights are self-evident, intentionally foreclosing the possibility of remaking the political order. Regenerative Politics makes a bold intervention into this fraught landscape, arguing that the survival of rights depends on abandoning their claims to self-evidence. Emma Planinc argues that liberal democracies must open themselves up to a regenerative politics that accepts all claims against political convention as self-determinative—including those that desire the rejection of rights or the overturning of liberal democracies themselves. Bringing together scholarship on race, democracy, liberalism, fascism, and the far right with an intellectual history of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and a novel account of human nature, Regenerative Politics offers a new political theory for the revitalization of politics. Planinc shows that liberal democracies can arm themselves against extreme challenges by remaining perpetually open to the reconstitution of rights, restoring the capacity for human beings to determine themselves in the world.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231560990
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Critics of liberal democracy from both the left and right view rights not as protectors of freedom but as impediments to self-determination and call for radically regenerative political alternatives. Liberals respond to these challenges by reasserting that universal rights are self-evident, intentionally foreclosing the possibility of remaking the political order. Regenerative Politics makes a bold intervention into this fraught landscape, arguing that the survival of rights depends on abandoning their claims to self-evidence. Emma Planinc argues that liberal democracies must open themselves up to a regenerative politics that accepts all claims against political convention as self-determinative—including those that desire the rejection of rights or the overturning of liberal democracies themselves. Bringing together scholarship on race, democracy, liberalism, fascism, and the far right with an intellectual history of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and a novel account of human nature, Regenerative Politics offers a new political theory for the revitalization of politics. Planinc shows that liberal democracies can arm themselves against extreme challenges by remaining perpetually open to the reconstitution of rights, restoring the capacity for human beings to determine themselves in the world.
A Traditionalist Confronts Fascism
Author: Julius Evola
Publisher: Arktos
ISBN: 1910524026
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This volume, a companion to Evola’s Fascism Viewed from the Right and Notes on the Third Reich, contains many of his occasional essays on the topic of fascism as understood from a traditionalist perspective which were written between 1930 and 1971, thus comprising both his contemporary and post-war assessments of the fascist phenomenon. Here we find Evola’s views not only on Italian Fascism and German Nazism, but also his discussions of other movements such as the Spanish Falange and the Japanese Imperial ideal, as well as his commentary on such diverse subjects as Nazi esotericism, the idea of a new spiritual Order to lead Europe, and the reasons for his rejection of Nazi biological racism. Also included are interviews Evola personally conducted with Corneliu Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard, and Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, the founder of the Pan-European Movement (the forerunner of the European Union), and the full text of ‘Orientations’, the famous essay Evola wrote in 1950 concerning the proper approach of the European Right in the post-war era which he further developed in Men Among the Ruins. These essays show Evola to have been an unsparing critic of fascism, always urging traditionalists to aspire for something higher than the merely political.
Publisher: Arktos
ISBN: 1910524026
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This volume, a companion to Evola’s Fascism Viewed from the Right and Notes on the Third Reich, contains many of his occasional essays on the topic of fascism as understood from a traditionalist perspective which were written between 1930 and 1971, thus comprising both his contemporary and post-war assessments of the fascist phenomenon. Here we find Evola’s views not only on Italian Fascism and German Nazism, but also his discussions of other movements such as the Spanish Falange and the Japanese Imperial ideal, as well as his commentary on such diverse subjects as Nazi esotericism, the idea of a new spiritual Order to lead Europe, and the reasons for his rejection of Nazi biological racism. Also included are interviews Evola personally conducted with Corneliu Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard, and Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, the founder of the Pan-European Movement (the forerunner of the European Union), and the full text of ‘Orientations’, the famous essay Evola wrote in 1950 concerning the proper approach of the European Right in the post-war era which he further developed in Men Among the Ruins. These essays show Evola to have been an unsparing critic of fascism, always urging traditionalists to aspire for something higher than the merely political.
Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism
Author: Gary Huafan He
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000888894
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism’s infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, or even ontological/aesthetic ‘networks’. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical and from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth-century naturphilosophie, this project focuses on probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post'-pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems, and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000888894
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism’s infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, or even ontological/aesthetic ‘networks’. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical and from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth-century naturphilosophie, this project focuses on probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post'-pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems, and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.
Insane But Not Mad
Author: John O'Loughlin
Publisher: Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN: 1447663764
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
All the titles in this collection of revised and reformatted weblogs were originally hosted by a number of blog sites, including, most especially, 'Wordpress.com', and date from 2011. As usual, the author been careful to ensure that the original chronology of weblogs has been, so far as possible, replicated, so that one can proceed through the material with a growing sense of continuity and even thematic enhancement, two crucial advantages of book publication over what may often appear to be the disjunctive if not chronologically unrelated nature of the blogging medium itself. – A Centretruths Editorial
Publisher: Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN: 1447663764
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
All the titles in this collection of revised and reformatted weblogs were originally hosted by a number of blog sites, including, most especially, 'Wordpress.com', and date from 2011. As usual, the author been careful to ensure that the original chronology of weblogs has been, so far as possible, replicated, so that one can proceed through the material with a growing sense of continuity and even thematic enhancement, two crucial advantages of book publication over what may often appear to be the disjunctive if not chronologically unrelated nature of the blogging medium itself. – A Centretruths Editorial
D(R)EAD ENDS
Author: John O'Loughlin
Publisher: John O'Loughlin
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Following on from End Station J J, John (James) O'Loughlin's previous collection of notational aphorisms, this project brings his philosophical journey to a conclusive peak, as it both sums-up and enlarges upon his recent thinking in relation to modern/post-modern criteria and the frankly dreadful pass to which reason (stemming from the so-called 'Age of Enlightenment') has come, and why it must be opposed from a kind of 'third way' beholden to the resurrection of revelation, if what amounts to the opposite of true enlightenment is eventually to be consigned to the 'rubbish bin' of regrettable history, and civilization accordingly be enabled to move-on towards a universal resolution owing little or nothing to the current 'dark ages' which, directly or indirectly, characterize the contemporary world. There are a number of possible interpretations of the pun-like title to this book of original thought, but the discerning reader – if, in future, the author is fortunate enough to have any – will sooner or later draw the most credible conclusions from it and think accordingly, joining him in his opposition to everything that 'flies in the face' of godly truth from standpoints that are more usually, these days, not even directly beholden to the 'Devil' (a generalized term for what exists 'up back' in Quasar-derived fashion), but are demonstrably human-all-too-human in their secular audacities and profanities. – A Centretruths Editorial
Publisher: John O'Loughlin
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Following on from End Station J J, John (James) O'Loughlin's previous collection of notational aphorisms, this project brings his philosophical journey to a conclusive peak, as it both sums-up and enlarges upon his recent thinking in relation to modern/post-modern criteria and the frankly dreadful pass to which reason (stemming from the so-called 'Age of Enlightenment') has come, and why it must be opposed from a kind of 'third way' beholden to the resurrection of revelation, if what amounts to the opposite of true enlightenment is eventually to be consigned to the 'rubbish bin' of regrettable history, and civilization accordingly be enabled to move-on towards a universal resolution owing little or nothing to the current 'dark ages' which, directly or indirectly, characterize the contemporary world. There are a number of possible interpretations of the pun-like title to this book of original thought, but the discerning reader – if, in future, the author is fortunate enough to have any – will sooner or later draw the most credible conclusions from it and think accordingly, joining him in his opposition to everything that 'flies in the face' of godly truth from standpoints that are more usually, these days, not even directly beholden to the 'Devil' (a generalized term for what exists 'up back' in Quasar-derived fashion), but are demonstrably human-all-too-human in their secular audacities and profanities. – A Centretruths Editorial
The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity
Author: Dominique Venner
Publisher: Arktos
ISBN: 1910524441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The shock of history: we live it, neither knowing or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the world have entered into a new era of thought, attitudes, and powers. This shock of history makes clear the fact that there is no such thing as an insurmountable destiny. The time will come for Europe to awaken, to respond to the challenges of immigration, toxic ideologies, the perils of globalism, and the confusion that assails her. But under what conditions? That is the question to which this book responds. Conceived in the form of a lively and dynamic interview with a historian who, after taking part in history himself, never ceased to study and reflect upon it. In this text, the first of his major works to appear in English, Dominique Venner recounts the great movements of European history, the origin of its thought, and its tragedies. He proposes new paths and offers powerful examples to ward off decadence, and to understand the history in which we are immersed and in which we lead our lives.
Publisher: Arktos
ISBN: 1910524441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The shock of history: we live it, neither knowing or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the world have entered into a new era of thought, attitudes, and powers. This shock of history makes clear the fact that there is no such thing as an insurmountable destiny. The time will come for Europe to awaken, to respond to the challenges of immigration, toxic ideologies, the perils of globalism, and the confusion that assails her. But under what conditions? That is the question to which this book responds. Conceived in the form of a lively and dynamic interview with a historian who, after taking part in history himself, never ceased to study and reflect upon it. In this text, the first of his major works to appear in English, Dominique Venner recounts the great movements of European history, the origin of its thought, and its tragedies. He proposes new paths and offers powerful examples to ward off decadence, and to understand the history in which we are immersed and in which we lead our lives.
Lectures on the Essence of Religion
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532646232
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This book, translated for the first time into English, presents the major statement of the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach. Here, in his most systematic work, Feuerbach’s thought on religion and on the philosophy of nature achieves its full maturity. Central to the thought of Feuerbach is the concept that man not God is the creator, that divinities are representations of man’s innermost feelings and ideas. Philosophy should turn from theology and speculative rationalism to sound factual anthropology. “My aim in these Lectures,” writes Feuerbach, “is to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, worshippers into workers, candidates for the other world into students of this world, Christians, who on their own confession are half-animal and half-angel, into men––whole men.”
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532646232
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This book, translated for the first time into English, presents the major statement of the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach. Here, in his most systematic work, Feuerbach’s thought on religion and on the philosophy of nature achieves its full maturity. Central to the thought of Feuerbach is the concept that man not God is the creator, that divinities are representations of man’s innermost feelings and ideas. Philosophy should turn from theology and speculative rationalism to sound factual anthropology. “My aim in these Lectures,” writes Feuerbach, “is to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, worshippers into workers, candidates for the other world into students of this world, Christians, who on their own confession are half-animal and half-angel, into men––whole men.”
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020
Author: Will Abberley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107191327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107191327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.