A certain Paul Miles, who on social media goes by the name “Павло Кілометренко”, is celebrating becoming a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Apologetics with his dissertation “Refuting Ruscism: A Critique from Biblical Social Ontology” defended at Liberty University in Virginia.
According to the latter, I am not only a “Ruscist philosopher and translator,” but even the “leading American Ruscist”— moreover, one whose work “from Poland and the Netherlands” demonstrates that “Ruscism is becoming an international movement among intellectuals.”
Cool.
The author defines “Ruscism” as “the worldview of Russian fascism which is characterized by a desire for a few great powers instead of many distinct countries, an emphasis on group identities over great expanses, and compatibility with the Russian Orthodox Church’s interfaith mission of symphonia with the Russian state.”
The dissertation — signed as written in a small town in Arkansas and submitted to Liberty University in Virginia — has its abstract in Ukrainian 🤣… you know, the international language of scholarship cultivated in American small towns of Republican persuasion.
For context, Liberty University is a private institution founded by the televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. and affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. It has been described as a “stage of choice in Republican presidential politics" and a "bastion of the Christian right." Ceremonially visited by Benjamin Netanyahu in 2012, it is one of the linchpins in the nexus of Christian Zionism, Dispensationalism, all kinds of politically-mobilized Evangelicalism, etc. The “university” itself has invested $5 million of its endowment in Israel.
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According to the latter, I am not only a “Ruscist philosopher and translator,” but even the “leading American Ruscist”— moreover, one whose work “from Poland and the Netherlands” demonstrates that “Ruscism is becoming an international movement among intellectuals.”
Cool.
The author defines “Ruscism” as “the worldview of Russian fascism which is characterized by a desire for a few great powers instead of many distinct countries, an emphasis on group identities over great expanses, and compatibility with the Russian Orthodox Church’s interfaith mission of symphonia with the Russian state.”
The dissertation — signed as written in a small town in Arkansas and submitted to Liberty University in Virginia — has its abstract in Ukrainian 🤣… you know, the international language of scholarship cultivated in American small towns of Republican persuasion.
For context, Liberty University is a private institution founded by the televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. and affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. It has been described as a “stage of choice in Republican presidential politics" and a "bastion of the Christian right." Ceremonially visited by Benjamin Netanyahu in 2012, it is one of the linchpins in the nexus of Christian Zionism, Dispensationalism, all kinds of politically-mobilized Evangelicalism, etc. The “university” itself has invested $5 million of its endowment in Israel.
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In my forthcoming book Thinking in Travels, I share some personal history about American Evangelicalism and Russian studies 😉…
In terms of recent publications on the topic of political religion of the Liberty University sort, I translated Paweł Lisicki’s The Messiah and the Third Temple: The Heresy and Wars of Christian Zionism which, although written from a specifically Catholic perspective, is a useful overview of the networks and ideologies at hand.
In terms of recent publications on the topic of political religion of the Liberty University sort, I translated Paweł Lisicki’s The Messiah and the Third Temple: The Heresy and Wars of Christian Zionism which, although written from a specifically Catholic perspective, is a useful overview of the networks and ideologies at hand.
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« The tragic is born from the clear perception of a double "contradiction": first between our smallness and our brevity in the face of the immensity and infinity of the world; then between the fact that we are contained in the world on the "material" plane and the fact that the world, however immense it may be, is at the same time contained in ourselves on the "spiritual" plane. We thus perceive that, however "infinitesimal" we may be, we are nevertheless the only ones who can "bring forth the more from the less," who can add to the world forms and sets of forms that would not exist outside of us. The Ancients perceived very well that intensity is a sort of "revenge" on brevity; they also noted that intensity varies in inverse proportion to duration (one does not live perpetually on the summits). The tragic also rests on the notion of fatum, of "fate" (not to be confused with "destiny": fate is what will happen, destiny is what has happened), a notion which, it must obviously be recalled, does not lead to fatalism, but quite the contrary. The feeling of fatum generates two precise attitudes: one admits that there can be a fate for each of us, without seeing in its ineluctable character the slightest motive to renounce attempting to change it if we judge that it does not correspond to the norms we have set for ourselves (this is the constant spring of Greek tragedy); once one has done everything in accordance with the norm one has set for oneself (and here, let us not forget, to be able is to be obliged), one not only accepts the course of things as it has actually occurred, but also wills it: amor fati. »
— Alain de Benoist, Ideas in the Right Place (1979) [forthcoming from Arktos]
— Alain de Benoist, Ideas in the Right Place (1979) [forthcoming from Arktos]
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The new expanded edition of Julius Evola’s Metaphysics of War, featuring an extensive introduction by yours truly.
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And here, for the first time in English, is The Woman Problem: Writings on Femininity, 1921-1971, edited by yours truly.
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^ As for leaks of the lore, you might be intrigued by the fact that the translator happens to be the author of Eurasian Universism: Sinitic Orientations for Rethinking the Western Logos (PRAV Publishing, 2022).
“It’s a small world,” or even better in Russian: мир тесен.
“It’s a small world,” or even better in Russian: мир тесен.
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Mark Sedgwick reviews Andrea Scarabelli’s Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life in Compact Magazine:
https://www.compactmag.com/article/julius-evolas-many-lives/
https://www.compactmag.com/article/julius-evolas-many-lives/
Compact
Julius Evola’s Many Lives
Julius Evola died in Rome in 1974, and has since become one of the most important thinkers of the global radical right.
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Forwarded from PRAV Publishing
NOW on the PRAV Perspectives Substack:
— One of the most crucial, controversial, and classic early essays of Alexander Dugin —
“Counter-Initiation: Critical Remarks on Some Aspects of the Doctrine of René Guénon”
Read it now
— One of the most crucial, controversial, and classic early essays of Alexander Dugin —
“Counter-Initiation: Critical Remarks on Some Aspects of the Doctrine of René Guénon”
Read it now
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Forwarded from Arktos
OUT NOW!
Alain de Benoist – Ideas in the Right Place: Foundations and Perspectives of the New Right
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In the summer of 1979, a media campaign was unleashed in France, and soon spread internationally, with the aim of discrediting and ostracizing a young movement that the press dubbed the Nouvelle Droite, or “New Right.”
Rather than submit to misinterpretations, caricatures, and outright lies, Alain de Benoist and the thinkers around GRECE (the Research and Study Group for European Civilization) accepted the challenge and leapt into the battle of ideas.
Alain de Benoist selected twenty-five essays that he considered the most exemplary of the New Right’s principles and perspectives on questions that are at once timeless, contemporary, and beyond the modern divisions of left and right. The result was Ideas in the Right Place, a work that has endured as a source of penetrating reflections on the fundamental questions of culture, history, and politics.
Alain de Benoist – Ideas in the Right Place: Foundations and Perspectives of the New Right
Buy it from Amazon
In the summer of 1979, a media campaign was unleashed in France, and soon spread internationally, with the aim of discrediting and ostracizing a young movement that the press dubbed the Nouvelle Droite, or “New Right.”
Rather than submit to misinterpretations, caricatures, and outright lies, Alain de Benoist and the thinkers around GRECE (the Research and Study Group for European Civilization) accepted the challenge and leapt into the battle of ideas.
Alain de Benoist selected twenty-five essays that he considered the most exemplary of the New Right’s principles and perspectives on questions that are at once timeless, contemporary, and beyond the modern divisions of left and right. The result was Ideas in the Right Place, a work that has endured as a source of penetrating reflections on the fundamental questions of culture, history, and politics.
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^ I am tremendously honored and proud to have edited this historic masterpiece. Several of the essays, such as "Tradition?", "The Paradigm of Human Culture," and "The Ascension of Europe", are captivating eye-openers. All of the essays are insightful and instructive in one way or another. This work is a perfect example of how far ahead thinking can leap — and how far behind, with so much catching-up to do, men will still find themselves half a century later.
I cannot but beseech you: read it for yourselves!
I cannot but beseech you: read it for yourselves!
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Ladies and gentlemen, readers and friends, anons, feds, and bots,
Once you’ve finished placing your orders for Alain de Benoist’s Ideas in the Right Place, I have a surprise for you:
The launch of my very own Substack is imminent.
You are hereby invited to subscribe: jafearnold.substack.com
(But that’s not the surprise...)
The surprise is the first article which you, dear subscribers, will catch wind of — in your inbox, among the notifications on your phone, or via a strange feeling in the aether.
The debut article is the first in a series. It tells the story and explores the pathways of an intelligence officer who was commissioned for his skills as a translator and deployed as an interrogator and spy-hunter. One day, while hospitalized, the intelligence officer came across a book by someone on the target list — a Traditionalist.
He was changed forever. After translating the book and sending it off to the publisher, he abandoned everything and moved to an island in Asia, where he became a Buddhist monk and was living out the rest of his days in a hut in the jungle, until [redacted]…
When I was traveling around Asia a few years ago, preparing to launch PRAV Publishing, I had his primum opus in my hands without knowing it…
Intrigued?
Join me on this and other odysseys: jafearnold.substack.com
Once you’ve finished placing your orders for Alain de Benoist’s Ideas in the Right Place, I have a surprise for you:
The launch of my very own Substack is imminent.
You are hereby invited to subscribe: jafearnold.substack.com
(But that’s not the surprise...)
The surprise is the first article which you, dear subscribers, will catch wind of — in your inbox, among the notifications on your phone, or via a strange feeling in the aether.
The debut article is the first in a series. It tells the story and explores the pathways of an intelligence officer who was commissioned for his skills as a translator and deployed as an interrogator and spy-hunter. One day, while hospitalized, the intelligence officer came across a book by someone on the target list — a Traditionalist.
He was changed forever. After translating the book and sending it off to the publisher, he abandoned everything and moved to an island in Asia, where he became a Buddhist monk and was living out the rest of his days in a hut in the jungle, until [redacted]…
When I was traveling around Asia a few years ago, preparing to launch PRAV Publishing, I had his primum opus in my hands without knowing it…
Intrigued?
Join me on this and other odysseys: jafearnold.substack.com
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