Controversies and Viewpoints
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TN: Parapsychological Magazine.
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TN: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1st May, 1881–10th April, 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist, contributing to the discovery of the ‘Peking Man’.
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TN: A Month Among the Girls.
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TN: Pan-Harmony.
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TN: A French Writer.
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TN: No Longer Shall We Go to Luxemburg.
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TN: Both of whom contributed to the field of phenomenology.
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TN: A French Philosopher.
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TN: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26th April, 1889–29th April, 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who focused mainly on logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
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TN: Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, otherwise known as Antonin Artaud (4th September, 1896–4th March, 1948), was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director and is considered one of the major figures of both 20th-century theatre and the European avant-garde.
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TN: In mathematics, the term ‘identity’ is synonymous with ‘equation’.
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TN: The Latin term characteristica universalis, meaning ‘universal characteristic’, is a universal and formal language imagined by German polymathic genius, mathematician, scientist and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, a language with the ability to express mathematical, scientific, and metaphysical concepts.
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TN: Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260–c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic.
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TN: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19th December, 1906–10th November, 1982) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 as the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), presiding over the country until his passing in 1982.
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Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (21st February, 1904–18th December, 1980) was a Soviet-Russian statesman during the Cold War.
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TN: The expression ‘blue line of the Vosges’ is attributed to Jules Ferry (late-19th century) in the context of post-war 1870, when it served as a reminder to the French that Alsace, located on the other side of the mountains, was under German rule.
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TN: My Last Memory.
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TN: Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (1st April, 1753–26th February, 1821) was a French-speaking Savoyard philosopher, author, lawyer, and diplomat. He was also an advocate of social hierarchy and monarchy in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
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TN: Born Prospero Taparelli d’Azeglio, Luigi Taparelli (1793–1862) was an Italian Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus who was particularly concerned with the issues arising from the industrial revolution.
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TN: Clemente Solaro, Count della Margherita (21st November, 1792–12th November, 1869) was a Piedmontese statesman who was strongly attached to the principles of autocracy. He openly opposed every attempt at political innovation, which resulted in his being bitterly hated by the liberals.
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TN: Ernst Jünger (29th March, 1895–17th February, 1998) was a highly decorated German soldier, writer, and entomologist. Towards the end of the Cold War, his unorthodox writings about the impact of materialism on modern society were already widely regarded as conservative rather than radical nationalist.
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TN: René-Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (15th November, 1886–7th January, 1951) was a French writer and intellectual. He remains a highly influential figure in the field of metaphysics and is considered an important author of the Traditionalist School.
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TN: Carlo Michelstaedter or Michelstädter (3rd June, 1887–17th October, 1910) was an Italian author, philosopher, and man of letters.
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TN: Otto Weininger (3rd April, 1880–4th October, 1903) was an Austrian philosopher who published the posthumously acclaimed Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex and Character). He committed suicide at the age of twenty-three.
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TN: A concordat is an agreement or treaty, particularly one between the Vatican and a secular government in matters of mutual interest.
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TN: Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss (8th February, 1892–13th January, 1974) was a German anthropologist, psychologist, and influential race theorist in the Third Reich. His most renowned work is entitled Rasse und Seele, meaning ‘The Race and the Soul’.
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TN: Born Giovan Battista Vico, Giambattista Vico (23rd June, 1668–23rd January, 1744) was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist of the Age of Enlightenment. He criticised the expansion and development of modern rationalism and was an apologist of Classical Antiquity, a precursor of systematic and complex thought (in contrast with Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism) and the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and semiotics.
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TN: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (18th March, 1830–12th September, 1889) was a French historian whose first great book, The Antique City (1864), mirrored his in-depth knowledge of the primary Greek and Latin texts.
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TN: The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, ‘Holy Vehme’, or simply Vehm are names given to a ‘proto-vigilante’ tribunal system of Westphalia, Germany, which was active during the later Middle Ages and whose proceedings were often secret. Following the execution of a death sentence, the corpse was typically hung on a tree for people to see, simultaneously serving as a deterrent to others.
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TN: I have found no evidence of such exact words ever being spoken by Lao Tzu, the renowned Chinese philosopher and writer considered the founder of philosophical Taoism.
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TN: Testimonials to Evola.
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TN: Recognitions (Arktos, 2017).
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TN: Robert de Herte is Alain de Benoist’s alias and pseudonym.
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TN: Paris Match is a French-language weekly news magazine.
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TN: ‘Enfant terrible’ is an original French expression denoting someone who behaves in an unconventional or controversial way.
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TN: Les Temps modernes (Modern Times) is a French journal whose first issue appeared in October 1945. It was once considered Jean-Paul Sartre’s own journal.
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TN: L’Obs, previously known as France Observateur and Le Nouvel Observateur (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine and the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation.
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TN: L’Express is a French weekly news magazine whose headquarters are in Paris.
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TN: Robert Lazurick (1896–1968) was a French politician and a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1936 to 1941, representing the department of Cher.
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TN: Alain de Lacoste-Lareymondie was a controversial French politician who strongly opposed the ‘Gaullist treason’ of Algeria.
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TN: The Prix Goncourt is an award in French literature given by the Académie Goncourt to the author of ‘the best and most imaginative prose work of the year’.
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TN: God’s Mercy.
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TN: The Murder of a Child.
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TN: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (9th March, 1749–2nd April, 1791) was a leader of the ear
ly stages of the French Revolution. A noble, he was involved in numerous scandals before the start of the Revolution in 1789, leaving his reputation in ruins.
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TN: In French, the term tête de chien, meaning ‘dog head’, has been used to describe Parisian people as being both fierce and cantankerous. Jean Cau seems to have chosen to grant the expression a broader application.
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TN: The Pope is Dead.
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TN: Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (6th May, 1758–28th July, 1794) was a French lawyer and politician, as well as one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. He campaigned for universal male suffrage in France, price controls on basic food commodities and the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. He was an ardent opponent of the death penalty but played a crucial role in arranging the execution of many political opponents, and of King Louis XVI, which led to the establishment of a French Republic.
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TN: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22nd April, 1870–21st January, 1924), better known as Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.
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TN: Mao Zedong (26th December, 1893–9th September, 1976) was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
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TN: Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a French-German politician. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and also co-president of the European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
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TN: The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (Republican Security Companies), abbreviated to CRS, are the general reserve of the French National Police. They are primarily involved in general security missions, but the task that they are most famous for is crowd and riot control.
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TN: The Old One’s Agony.
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TN: The Era of Slaves.
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TN: The Stables of the West.
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TN: Treatise on Morals I.
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TN: The Great Prostitute.
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TN: Albrecht Dürer (21st May, 1471–6th April, 1528) was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. His most famous engravings, paintings and etchings include Ritter, Tod und Teufel (The Knight, Death, and the Devil, created in 1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514).
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TN: Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29th May, 1880–8th May, 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history with a pronounced interest in mathematics, science, and art. He is most famous for his book entitled The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes). Spengler’s model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
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TN: My Misogyny.
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TN: This is a metaphor that expresses the Slave’s ability to control his former Master’s behaviour, just as one would control a bull’s actions by piercing one of the most sensitive parts of its body, namely its nose, with a large metal ring.
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TN: Why France?
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TN: This is, in all likelihood, a reference to the Place du Châtelet, a public square in Paris where the Grand Châtelet stronghold once stood.
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TN: In Greek mythology, Augeas was the king of Elis and the father of Epicaste. His stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country, had never been cleaned until the arrival of the great hero Heracles (Hercules).
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TN: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5th May, 1813–11th November, 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to have been the first existentialist philosopher.
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TN: An Outline of the Philosophy of Structure.
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TN: Antoine Augustin Cournot (28th August, 1801–31st March, 1877) was a French philosopher and mathematician.
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TN: Arthur Schopenhauer (22nd February, 1788–21st September, 1860) was a German philosopher. He is most renowned for his 1818 work entitled The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), in which he characterises the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will.
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TN: Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes (principally living things) are like complicated machines or artefacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. Thus, the source of a thing’s activities is not the whole itself, but its parts or an external influence on the parts.
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TN: Vitalism is the belief that ‘living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than inanimate things’.
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TN: Consciousness and the Body.
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TN: The World of Values.
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TN: The Philosophy of Value.
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TN: Neo-Finalism.
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TN: Cybernetics and the Origin of Information.
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TN: The Genesis of Lifeforms.
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TN: God of religions, God of Science.
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TN: Marcel Achard (5th July, 1899–4th September, 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies allowed him to maintain his position as a highly recognisable name in his country’s theatrical and literary circles for five decades.
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TN: Danielle Hunebelle (10th May, 1922–28th March, 2013) was a French actress, journalist, filmmaker and writer.
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TN: Pierre Debray-Ritzen (27th February, 1922–7th July, 1993) was a French psychiatrist.
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TN: The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19th and 20th April, 1903. Further rioting erupted in October 1905.
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TN: The growing tension between Armenians and Azeris (often instigated by the Russian officials who feared nationalist movements among their ethnically non-Russian subjects) resulted in mutual pogroms in 1905–1906.
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TN: Born Béla Kohn, Béla Kun (20th February, 1886–29th August, 1938) was a Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician who was also the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. After the failure of the Hungarian revolution, Kun emigrated to the Soviet Union, where he worked as the head of the Crimean Revolutionary Committee. He also contributed to the organisation of the Red Terror in Crimea (1920–1921), in which he himself participated.
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TN: A French author and poet.
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TN: Hieroglyphs.
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TN: The first five-year plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. Its implementation lasted from 1928 to 1932.
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TN: Sergei Mironovich Kirov (27th March, 1886–1st December, 1934) was a prominent ear
ly Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union who rose through the Communist Party to become head of the party organisation in Leningrad. He was shot dead by a gunman at his offices in the Smolny Institute.