An Artist of the Right

Charles Wing Krafft, "the dark angel of Seattle art," was an American painter and ceramicist, as well as a poet and essayist. Straddling the worlds of fine art and "lowbrow" art, Krafft began as a painter of the Northwest School but in the 1990s became famous for his dark and ironic Delft-style ceramics depicting weapons, disasters, and dictators. In the last fifteen years of his life, Krafft became an outspoken Holocaust revisionist and white advocate. An Artist of the Right collects transcripts of some of Krafft's interviews and speeches in which he recounts his artistic, intellectual, and political journeys with his well-known wisdom, humanity, and wry humor.

Arts & Photography

Krafft, Charles

History & Criticism

Counter-Currents Publishing

Charles Wing Krafft, "the dark angel of Seattle art," was an American painter and ceramicist, as well as a poet and essayist.\nStraddling the worlds of fine art and "lowbrow" art, Krafft began as a painter of the Northwest School but in the 1990s became famous for his dark and ironic Delft-style ceramics depicting weapons, disasters, and dictators. In the last fifteen years of his life, Krafft became an outspoken Holocaust revisionist and white advocate.\nAn Artist of the Right collects transcripts of some of Krafft's interviews and speeches in which he recounts his artistic, intellectual, and political journeys with his well-known wisdom, humanity, and wry humor.

The Cultured Thug

Literature & Fiction

Bowden, Jonathan

The Trial of Socrates

Biographies & Memoirs

Johnson, Greg

Professionals & Academics

The trial of Socrates is a pivotal event in world history. Before Socrates, philosophy had put society on trial. Now society was striking back. The Trial of Socrates first presents the case for the prosecution based on Aristophanes' comedy Clouds, which mocks Socrates as a preacher of atheism and moral corruption. The case for the defense is drawn from five of Plato's dialogues, which explore the permanent tensions between intellectual freedom and social order, as well as how they might be harmonized. "Socrates was the pivotal figure in the emergence of Western philosophy. Greg Johnson's The Trial of Socrates is the clearest and most incisive introduction to the life and teachings Socrates that I have ever read." -Collin Cleary, Ph.D., author of Wagner's Ring & the Germanic Tradition "In The Trial of Socrates, Greg Johnson guides us through the difficult and ambiguous evidence concerning one of the most crucial turning points in the West's cultural history: the career and eventual execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates. In doing so, he brings the reader close to the heart of our tradition and what it means to be an heir of that tradition today. -F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D., author of Sexual Utopia in Power "Plato's Apology of Socrates is the court report of the trial and death sentence of history's most famous philosopher. Greg Johnson's The Trial of Socrates is an important companion to anyone approaching the text for the first time, providing the historical context to bring this key text back to life." -Mark Gullick, Ph.D., author of Vanikin in the Underworld "Nietzsche's hope to 'reestablish the broken link with the Greeks' finds very few adherents in academia today. Teachers with the enthusiasm, talent, learning, and seriousness for such a task have been driven out of our colleges and universities. Where does one turn for guidance? With the publication of The Trial of Socrates-a lively, engaging, and accessible introduction to the fundamental moral-political and philosophic problems embodied in the life of Socrates-Greg Johnson steps into the void and helps fulfill a vital need in our destitute time." -Anonymous Heidegger Scholar

Toward A New Nationalism

Toward a New Nationalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Against Imperialism

History

Europe

Sadegh Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl is widely considered to be the greatest work of modern Persian literature. Often compared to the classics of Existentialism and Gothic horror, The Blind Owl is widely believed to be cursed, so that anyone who reads it seriously is driven to suicide. This belief is no doubt influenced by Hedayat's own suicide in Paris in 1951.In Novel Folklore, Jason Reza Jorjani, whose grandfather was best friends with Hedayat, offers a revolutionary interpretation of The Blind Owl. Jorjani reveals Hedayat's complex appropriation and adaptation of libertine Gnostic and antinomian Tantric ideas and argues that he aimed to reestablish Iran's perennial role as the cultural crossroads of the Western world and the Indo-Buddhist East.On Jorjani's reading, The Blind Owl is ultimately about the "Imaginal" metamorphosis of humans into higher beings. These beings are addressing us from our own future. We think of them as "aliens" because we are alienated from our own future possibilities. Their business here is to re-write their past by re-engineering the folkloric substratum of human consciousness and identity.Jason Jorjani's Novel Folklore is a stunningly original interpretation of The Blind Owl and an original philosophical work in its own right.

Novel Folklore: On Sadegh Hedayat's the Blind Owl

Jason Reza Jorjani

Gold in the Furnace

Gold in the Furnace is an ardent National Socialist's vivid account of life in occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, based on extensive travels and interviews conducted in 1948 and 1949. Savitri Devi is scathing in her description of Allied brutality and hypocrisy: countless German civilians died from Allied firebombing; millions perished after the war, driven from their homes by Russians, Czechs, Poles, and others; more than a million prisoners of war perished from planned starvation or outright murder in Allied concentration camps; untold thousands more disappeared into slave labour camps from the Congo to Siberia. Savitri Devi describes in vivid detail how individual National Socialists were subjected to "de-Nazification" by Germany's democratic liberators. Party and military leaders were subjected to summary execution, torture, starvation, show-trials, imprisonment, and execution. Ordinary party members were subjected to petty indignities and recantations extorted under the threat of imprisonment, hunger, and the denial of livelihood. She also chronicles the systematic plunder of Germany by the Allies: the clear-cutting of ancient forests, the dismantling of factories, and the theft of natural resources. In spite of the disaster, Savitri Devi did not view it as the end of National Socialism, but as a purification-a trial by fire separating the base metal from the gold-and a prelude to a new beginning. Thus she also devotes chapters to presenting the basic philosophy and constructive political programme of National Socialism. Gold in the Furnace is a valuable historical document of the National Socialists who never lost faith, despite suffering, persecution, and martyr-dom; of the ordinary Germans who revered Hitler even after the war; of the widespread rumours of Hitler's survival; of the hopes of imminent National Socialist revival, perhaps in the aftermath of a Third World War; of the expectations of Soviet victory in such a war; and of the philosophy, experi-ences, and unique personality of a remarkable woman.

Savitri Devi

Community & Culture

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