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German traditionalism > Romance traditionalism

Kant, Holderlin, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Wagner, Nietzsche, Jung and Heidegger are a thousand times deeper, and above all more honest, than this LARPer. Lutheranism is more traditional than Catholicism ever was. It isn't surprising that Guenon, a Frenchman, had to look to exotic foreign cultures for his 'tradition' when his own culture, and religion, was an artificial Latinate creation. Only he made foreign cultures just as artificial and arbitrary as his own; played with culture like a mechanism. Or that Evola had to rely on Nietzsche, Wolfram, the German 'Ur', etc. Western tradition is Greece, but these 'Traditionalists' barely consider it, presumably because Greece has always been beyond the grasp of the Latins. Only Germany understood Greece. And if all that wasn't enough, Guenon was filtered by classical music.

>The resurrection of the German Folk itself has emanated from the German Spirit, in fullest contrast to the "Renaissance" of the remaining culture-folks of new Europe—of whom in the French nation's case at least, instead of any resurrection, an unexampledly capricious transformation on mere mechanical lines, dictated from above, is equally demonstrable.
>French Civilisation arose without the people, German Art without the princes; the first could arrive at no depth of spirit because it merely laid a garment on the nation, but never thrust into its heart; the second has fallen short of power and patrician finish because it could not reach as yet the courts of princes, not open yet the hearts of rulers to the German Spirit.
>However high the French spirit might try to lift itself above the common life, the loftiest spheres of its imagination were everywhere delimited by tangibly and visibly realistic life-forms, which could only be copied, but not 'interpreted' (Nachbildung): for Nature alone supplies a model for aesthetic moulding (Nachbildung), whereas Culture can become an object of nothing but mechanical imitation (Nachahmung).

Everyone should read Wagner's masterstroke of cultural analysis, "German Art and German Politics", for a complete contrast of the German and French character.

after the thirty years war the german spirit had to compensate for occupation and foreign domination

there's a sort of dictionary with wagner takes on everything, compiled by glasenapp
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2wM5AAAAIAAJ/

>you can't read german
oh

good intro:
carl dahlhaus - wagner's music dramas