The Radical Tradition offers a delectable platter of literary treats ranging from anarchist theory through to political science and encompasses a wide range of radical political theories.The book is diverse in nature and does not promote any particular viewpoint, intending instead to offer an assortment of new theories and ideas. The Radical Tradition prefers to approach politics through culture and philosophy rather than as party rhetoric. This book includes the following articles: History and Decadence: Spengler's Cultural Pessimism Today, A Polyp Devours Its Feed, Paracelsus Unzipped: An Analysis of F.W. Murnau's Film, Nosferatu, Heidegger: The Application of Meaning in An Increasingly Transient World, Anarcho-National-Syndicalist: Some Reflections on Being Shot by Both Sides, Lessons From the Music Industry, The Civilisation Cycle and its Implications for the Individual , An Introduction to Intertraditionale, The Art of Rootless Cosmopolitanism: America's Offensive Against Civilisation, Schopenhauer and Suffering: Eternal Pessimist or Prophet for our Times?, Anarcho-Gnosticism: Golgotha of the Absolute Mind, Towards a Sufi Anarch: The Role of Islamic Mysticism Against Modernist Decay, Are Human Rights a Fiction of Modern, Western Liberal Democracies That Bring Us No Closer to a Shared Ethical Framework?, 50 Years On: Notes on the New Right, The Impossible Dream: An Introduction to Christian Anarchism, The Nietzschean Prophecies: Two Hundred Years of Nihilism and the Coming Crisis of Western Civilization, Transcending the Beyond: Third Position to National-Anarchism and Reforming the Modern World: Addressing the Issue of Cultural Identity.

The Radical Tradition: Philosophy, Metapolitics and the Conservative Revolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Manticore Press

Mythopoesis is a Greek-derived word that means "myth-making." Mythopoeia was used by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien in reference to creative art about "fundamental things." Mythopoesis is, therefore, the creation of myth by means of the higher imagination. Thus, the creation of myth is also one of the highest forms of storytelling. In this way, myths and myth-making are a source of meaning for human consciousness, which exists at the junction of two vast worlds or realities: the external world known to science and empirical observation and the inner world described in myth, art, imagination, and phenomenology in general. This inner world, the world of mythopoesis, is present in popular culture, such as novels, television, cinema, comic books, and computer games, in which archetypal themes have been re-shaped according to the understanding and worldview of contemporary authors and readers. The inner world is not just an epiphenomenon of the brain. It is as extensive and autonomous as the outer world. To use the terminology of esotericist scholar Henry Corbin, it is an "Imaginal World," which is the intermediate or transitional reality between the mundane or everyday reality on the one hand and spiritual, noetic, and transcendent reality or realities on the other. Mythopoesis and the Modern World draws inspiration from various authors, including (but not limited to) J. R. R. Tolkien, Henry Corbin, Joseph Campbell, Carl Gustav Jung, Sri Aurobindo, Mircea Eliade, Ken Wilber, and Jean Gebser. The book also studies mythopoesis and archetypes in the science fiction and fantasy genres in relation to mythological and metaphysical narratives.

Mythopoesis and the Modern World

Literature & Fiction

Kazlev, M Alan

History & Criticism

The Devi Mahatmya is one of the most important texts in Hinduism and forms part of the Markandeya Purana. It is also one of the oldest texts in the world dealing with a Goddess-based Spiritual Tradition. The Devi Mahatmya tells us the story of a disillusioned king, a merchant in despair, and a sage whose wisdom guides them to knowledge and salvation. The sage does this by revealing to them the three glorious victories achieved by the Goddess over the asura forces.\nRaghupati Bhatt’s latest booktells us How the Great Mother Goddess Emerged and how She keeps on emerging to save us. He also includes an introduction, subsidiary texts, and notes to assist the reader.

How the Great Mother Emerged: The Devi Mahatmya

Religion & Spirituality

Bhatt, Raghupati

Hinduism

"The Kantian worldview, which always underlay all religion, philosophy, and art, could not have been the eternal truth if it did not emerge more or less clearly everywhere that the human mind penetrated into the depths, as this occurred, for example, in India through the Upanishads of the Vedas and the Vedanta based on them and in Greece through Parmenides and Plato. To consider both these phenomena in the light of the Kantian philosophy is the task that we have set ourselves here." - Paul Deussen Vednata, Plato, and Kant is a new translation. The book presents a defense of Shankara's Advaita Ved&#257;nta philosophy as well as an elucidation of the Greek Idealistic doctrines of Parmenides and Plato. In all these schools of thought, Deussen detects a similar basic understanding of the world as a mere appearance distinct from Ideal Reality. He approximated this understanding to the Kantian notion of 'things in themselves' (Dinge-an-sich) and noted a degeneration of the original Vedic and Upanishadic worldview in the philosophies that followed, such as the S&#257;mkhya and Buddhism, just as there was a corruption of Parmenides' doctrine of Being in the philosophy of his pupil Zeno. Similarly, he believes that Kant's revolutionary Idealistic insights in Germany were also distorted by the post-Kantian thinkers and not generally understood in their original form except by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), who developed the doctrine of the world as a mere representation produced by the innate intuitive forms within the Intellect - Space, Time, and Causality. <ul> <li>Includes a preface by Alexander Jacob (Translator)</li> </ul>

Vedanta, Plato, and Kant (Translated)

Deussen, Paul

What do Sir Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Buddha have in common? They were all born prematurely. Tiny, weak, and brain-damaged, they very nearly didn't survive. But, just about pulling-through, they went on to change the world. And so did Rousseau, Goethe, and Moses, despite being born tiny and many months early. In Sent Before Their Time, Edward Dutton, who was born 3 months early himself, explores the massive and disproportionately high impact that people born prematurely or with low birth weight have had on world history. He shows that the mental characteristics caused by being born prematurely - being a 'preemie' - are precisely those that have always been associated with the heights of genius and of spell-binding charisma. And Dutton, whose analysis includes an eye-opening account of his own preemie childhood, presents an evolutionary theory for preterm birth, arguing that under the harsh Darwinian conditions that existed before the Industrial Revolution, the group with the optimum number of surviving preterm children - and, therefore, geniuses and inspiring people - would have been better able to win wars against other groups and, thus, triumph in the battle of Darwinian selection.

Sent Before Their Time: Genius, Charisma, and Being Born Prematurely

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dutton, Edward

Women's Health

In Rigorism: The Influence of Willpower Upon History, Lennart Svensson presents a unique interpretation of rigor that allows us to examine some of the gray areas in history. Svensson's concept of rigorism is derived from the Latin word rigor, which means hardness and discipline. This theory covers instances of willpower in history, such as acting decisively in a crisis and demonstrating responsibility with authority. It is an area of history that has been largely ignored until now, even though all historical figures have to rely on their willpower in times of crisis.\nRigorism: The Influence of Willpower Upon History examines regimes in Sparta, Macedonia, the Diadochi, the late Republic, and Imperial Rome. This is followed by studies of Faustian Era figures like Napoleon, Boulanger, and de Gaulle.\nIn addition, Svensson also presents other historical topics, such as cycles of war, the artistic interests of rulers, the role of temples, heroes of aviation, the Shogan, and Kautilya's Arthashastra.

Rigorism: The Influence of Willpower Upon History

History

Svensson, Lennart

Ancient Civilizations

On the Philosophy of Education: Towards an Anthroposophical View

Irandoost, Daniele-Hadi

In the 1920s, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger attempted a novel definition of truth. This was required in order to firmly delineate the sense of being. Taking the Ancient Greek αληθεια as his directive, he collapsed the subjective / objective dichotomy and surmounted the understanding of truth as an assertion in agreement with reality. Heidegger came to an understanding of truth more robust than what is assumed by the scientific industries. He identified the nature of truth as disclosive. This understanding proved to have immense explanatory power over the positivist understanding of the nature of truth as fact. Unfortunately, this understanding was never allowed to blossom; still, to this day, we suffer from the state of affairs in which our political mechanisms are grounded upon narrow conceptions of the nature of truth as fact. Consider the political economy in which truth in service to today. To be sure, the failing institutions of democracy (post-truth), social justice activism, and the prevalence of conspiracy theory are all evidence that the mechanisms of technocratic governance (which make use of truth as "fact!") are unable to satisfy the ideal of democracy. Therefore, only now, and nearly 50 years after Heidegger's death, does the story of truth as fact come to a close. At this pivot, truth will either die as the fact, or it will find new purpose in a future political and interpersonal commerce. If we add to the nature of truth something perhaps quite novel-namely, that is it projective, and if we allow ourselves submission to the overwhelming explanatory power of this twofold definition, then we are presented with the vision of governance as projection-a governance in which truth may be allowed to fulfill its nature as both disclosive and projective in that emergent paradigm which has been prophesized in metamodern discourse. In the book How to Nurture Truth and Authenticity, a platform for governance as projection is proposed. It is only possible only when standing firmly in a novel thinking space called "first economics" philosophy. This book also contains interactive features.

How to Nurture Truth and Authenticity: A Metamodern Economic Reform Proposal

Business & Money

Carmien, Justin

Economics

In the words of eminent Philosopher Cornel West, Tomaini's Encyclopedia of American Idealism: Toward a Novel Method and System of Philosophy attempts to "encompass the insights of intellectual giants," both contemporary and past. Tomaini's Encyclopedia, which is named in the Hegelian sense of that word, primarily calculates the scholarly question: how might G.W.F. Hegel's system and method be overcome? Flipping the Western canon on its head in order to counter the behemoth scope and density of the Hegelian system, the Encyclopedia revises innumerable fundamental tenets of philosophy, producing at its onset a new method of philosophy - Reconstruction, contra Derrida's Deconstruction -, and instituting by its conclusion a new philosophical system assembled atop Kant and Hegel's school of German Idealism. Beginning with dialectics, Tomaini outlines an approach to rival Hegel's and develops this system further. The Encyclopedia of American Idealism also incorporates epistemology, metaphysics, cognitive science, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, metalinguistics, aesthetics, ethics, and politics. Finally, it culminates in a theoretical model for International Relations rooted in Immanuel Kant's concept of Perpetual Peace.

Encyclopedia of American Idealism: Toward a Novel Method and System of Philosophy

Tomaini, G.R.

Everything has a point of origin, and the formation of civilization is no exception. For Western culture, the vestigial epoch of cultural birth in Greece contains the best archaeological heritage of societal development, meticulously preserved by scholars.Equally unprecedented is the spectacular rise of Chanakya/Kautilya and the Mauryan Empire in India, which is one of antiquity's most astonishing political systems and continues to exert an enormous influence worldwide.Both ancient Greek and Indian civilizations have left an enduring legacy through Socrates, Plato, and Chanakya/Kautilya. In the West, Plato (and, by default, Socrates) is regarded as the most influential philosopher in history, so much so that many philosophical concepts are mere 'footnotes to Plato.'No less extensive is the influence of Chanakya, whose ideas are still studied today. In the West, Chanakya is often referred to as the 'Indian Machiavelli' due to his political treatise, the Arthashastra.Accordingly, the book is split into two sections - one of which chronicles the rise and fall of Greek aristocracy and the philosophical concepts this relates to; the principles of areté, timé, and hybris.The second section outlines the concept of sacred kingship in India, which arises from Vedic tradition and is continued by Chanakya, who revitalizes and innovates upon older ideas.Both Socrates and Chanakya have a legendary quality, which at times, borders on being mythological more than mortal, such is the extent of their influence. However, they are also much more complex than a casual glance would imply, exhibiting an extraordinary depth of character and spiritual qualities, which this book will explain.

Sovereign Thought: The Philosopher & the Kingdom: From Ancient Greece to the Arthaśāstra

Taunton, Gwendolyn

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