/lit/ - Literature

>>12397729
Thanks for saying that. I've seen this picture countless times and finding out van Gogh painted this blew me away. We truly live in the best universe.

>>9674805
>not creatively celebrating the role you have been assigned to by history
Pleb, we are like parachutists being thrown out of an airplane. We have no choice but to accept the hand we have been dealt and to make the best out of it.

>>9538948
Breddy gud. Tolstoy and CS Lewis, my man.

>>9506044
He's interesting in certain contexts. Vid related, a Muslim interpretation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3y2GckR_k

>>9427373
The Holy Quran

>>9383597
Mohler identifies liberalism as some sort of secularised Christian universalist ideology and proposes a counter-ideology which is build on particularistic nationalism and cultural relativism. Benoist's ethnopluralism builds on that.

It is basically a rejection of the pre-1945 narrative that there are superior cultures and races. The New Right basically maintains that difference is what makes us human.

What I dislike about it is the equation of modern liberalism with universalism as liberalism itself is a status quo laissez-faire approach to human affairs and in itself particularist. At the same time it is also universalist as exemplified by American neo-imperailism and democracy export.

I think Benoist and Mohler offer some valid criticisms of modern ideology but their approach is faulty. There is no clear distinction between particularism and universalism in political ideology.

As for academic introductory works I can't help you much as I follow the New Right through its own publications out of personal interest. The scene is actually quite small and its influence is not as big as is sometimes suggested.

Benoist's influence on the Front National is marginal and the German New Righters have only resurfaced recently. Mohler had some influence in the 1980s as a political advisor of CDU chancellor candidate Franz Joseph Strauss. Contemporary New Righters are trying to make inroads into the AfD but are basically divided between pragmatists (around the Junge Freiheit newspaper) and hardliners (around the Institute for State Policy, a self-described think-tank).

>>9004995
The human condition is suffering. Accept your own geworfenheit and advance to übermenschhood