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Postmodern Challenges: Between Faust & Narcissus, Part 1
The wise old Faust in FAUST (1926), directed by F. W. Murnau 1,760 words Part 1 of 3 Translated by Greg Johnson In Oswald Spengler’s terms, our European culture is the product of a “pseudomorphosis,”...
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Postmodern Challenges: Between Faust & Narcissus, Part 2
“Organisation Todt” by Kettler, circa 1933–1945 1,869 words Part 2 of 3 Translated by Greg Johnson The Encysted Metanarrative . . . Once the Enlightenment metanarrative was established—“encysted”—in...
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Postmodern Challenges: Between Faust & Narcissus, Part 3
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905–1980 2,063 words Part 3 of 3 Translated by Greg Johnson The Babbitt with the Sartrean Paradox In 1945, the tone of ideological debate was set by the victorious ideologies. We...
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D. H. Lawrence on Herman Melville’s Typee & Omoo
4,893 words “We can’t go back. We can’t go back to the savages: not a stride. We can be in sympathy with them. We can take a great curve in their direction, onwards. But we cannot turn the current of...
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Desafios Pós-modernos:Entre Fausto & Narciso
5,503 words Tradução: para o inglês por Greg Johnson [Para o português pela Equipe Yrminsul] Parte 1 Nos termos de Oswald Spengler, nossa cultura Europeia é o produto de uma “pseudomorfose, isto é, do...
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From Ultrasuede to Limelight:Aryan Entrepreneurs in the Dark Age, Part 1:...
Roy Halston Frowick, April 23, 1932–March 26, 1990 6,479 words Part 1 of 2 Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2010) Director: Whitney Sudler-Smith Limelight (2011) Director: Billy Corben Party Monster...
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From Ultrasuede to Limelight:Aryan Entrepreneurs in the Dark Age, Part 2:...
3,761 words Part 2 of 2 Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2010) Director: Whitney Sudler-Smith Limelight (2011) Director: Billy Corben Party Monster (2003) Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato...
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Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 2
3,686 words Ricardo Duchesne The Uniqueness of Western Civilization Leiden: Brill, 2011 5. What about the East? The revisionists’ favorite non-Western people seems to be the Chinese. They tend to both...
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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3 Hegel & the Struggle for...
G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831 4,986 words Part 3 of 5 Ricardo Duchesne The Uniqueness of Western Civilization Leiden: Brill, 2011 7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition Duchesne discusses the nature of...
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The Faustian Spirit
1,608 words French translation here The following article is an elaboration of a portion of an address by Dr. William Pierce to the General Convention of the National Alliance in September, 1978,...
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L’Esprit faustien
1,744 words English original here L’article suivant est une élaboration d’une partie d’un discours du Dr. William Pierce devant la Convention Générale de la National Alliance en septembre 1978,...
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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium Wagner’s Place in the Germanic TraditionPart...
2,783 words Part 4 of 8 Wotan and the Faustian West As noted in the Introduction to this essay, at the time of the Ring’s conception Wagner was an anarchist revolutionary. Major influences on his...
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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium Wagner’s Place in the Germanic TraditionPart...
2,522 words Part 5 of 8 The story of the Ring involves four ages, similar to those taught in Tradition. The Age of Titans is the period represented by figures somehow more primordial than the gods:...
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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium Wagner’s Place in the Germanic TraditionPart...
2,707 words Part 6 of 8 Das Rheingold When the events of Das Rheingold begin, the Wotan-Loge relationship is already well-established, and the primeval crimes described earlier are long past. However,...
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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium Wagner’s Place in the Germanic TraditionPart...
3,645 words Part 7 of 8 Siegfried If Wotan is the main character of the Ring, Siegfried is its hero. However, in dealing with the character of Siegfried we do not depart from our discussion of Wotan at...
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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium Wagner’s Place in the Germanic TraditionPart...
2,275 words Part 8 of 8 Gelassenheit We can say that the plot of the Ring is simply this: Western man, in the person of Wotan, finally awakens to the destructiveness of his thumotic nature, and wills...
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The Faustian Soul & Western Uniqueness
3,799 words Oswald Spengler If I had to choose one word to explain why the West has been the most creative civilization it would be “Faustian.” My choice of this word hinges on the realization that the...
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Contra Faustian Man
3,688 words French translation here “The history of mankind as a whole is tragic. But the sacrilege and the catastrophe of the Faustian are greater than all others, greater than anything Æschylus or...
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Contre l’Homme Faustien
3,997 words English original here « L’histoire même de l’humanité tout entière est tragique. Mais le sacrilège du Faustien et son désastre surpassent tous les autres, allant au-delà de tout ce...
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James O’Meara reviews TYR, vol. 4
2,057 words TYR: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4 Ed. Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan North Augusta, SC.: Ultra Press, 2014 Finally receiving the new issue of TYR, one feels torn between wishing...
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