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Pulp Fascism (Hardcover)
Jonathan Bowden; Edited by Greg Johnson
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R785
Discovery Miles 7 850
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Jonathan Bowden was a paradox: on the one hand, he was an avowed
elitist and aesthetic modernist, yet on the other hand, he relished
such forms of popular entertainment as comics, graphic novels,
pulps, and even Punch and Judy shows, which not only appeal to the
masses but also offer a refuge for pre- and anti-modern aesthetic
tastes and tendencies. Bowden was drawn to popular culture because
it was rife with Nietzschean and Right-wing themes: heroic
vitalism, Faustian adventurism, anti-egalitarianism, biological
determinism, racial consciousness, biologically-based (and
traditional) notions of the differences and proper relations of the
sexes, etc. Pulp Fascism collects Jonathan Bowden's principal
statements on Right-wing themes in popular culture drawn from his
essays, lectures, and interviews. These high-brow analyses of
low-brow culture reveal just how deep and serious shallow
entertainment can be. About Pulp Fascism: "Jonathan Bowden said
that greatness lies in the mind and in the fist. Nietzsche combined
both forms in the image of the warrior poet. For Bowden it was the
image of the cultured thug. I give you Jonathan Bowden: cultured
thug." -Greg Johnson, from the Foreword "Jonathan Bowden was
uniquely gifted as a cultural critic and revisionist, willing to
explore the obscure areas of high and low culture, and apply ideas
from the former to the analysis of the later, starting always from
the supposition that inequality is a moral good. Bowden's texts are
dense and rich with reference and insight, yet remain entertaining
and replete with humor." -Alex Kurtagi "Many men give speeches;
Jonathan Bowden gave orations. To experience one of Bowden's
performances must have been something like hearing Maria Callas in
her prime or witnessing one of Mussolini's call to arms from a
Roman balcony. "As an intellectual, Jonathan was a Renaissance man,
or perhaps a bundle of contradictions: his novels and paintings
were of Joycean complexity, and yet, in his orations and
non-fiction writings, he was able to cut to the essence of a
philosophy or political development in a way that was immediately
understandable and, indeed, useful for nationalists. "Pulp Fascism
could be called Bowden's 'unfinished symphony'- his attempt (not
quite realized) to reveal the radical, ambivalent, and, in some
cases, shockingly traditionalist undercurrents in pop culture.
"That which envelops our lives is taken for granted . . . and thus
rarely properly analyzed and understood. Bowden brings new life to
those characters and comic-book worlds we too often dismiss as
child's play." -Richard Spencer About the Author Jonathan Bowden,
April 12, 1962-March 29, 2012, was a British novelist, playwright,
essayist, painter, actor, and orator, and a leading thinker and
spokesman of the British New Right. Born in Kent and largely
self-educated, Bowden was involved with a series of Right-wing
groups for which he was a popular speaker, including the Monday
Club, the Western Goals Institute, the Revolutionary Conservative
Caucus, the Freedom Party, the Bloomsbury Forum, the British
National Party, and finally the New Right (London), of which he was
the Chairman. Bowden was a prolific author of fiction, philosophy,
criticism, and commentary.
Dr. Greg Johnson is the editor of Counter-Currents Publishing and
its journal North American New Right (www.counter-currents.com),
which draw upon the ideas of the European New Right to promote a
new approach to White Nationalist politics in North America. New
Right vs. Old Right collects 32 essays in which Dr. Johnson sets
out his vision of White Nationalist "metapolitics" and
distinguishes it from Fascism and National Socialism (the "Old
Right"), as well as conservatism and classical liberalism (the
"Phony Right"). Dr. Johnson rejects the Old Right's party politics,
totalitarianism, imperialism, and genocide in favor of the
metapolitical project of constructing a hegemonic White Nationalist
consciousness within a pluralistic society. He argues that White
Nationalists are too dependent on the model of hierarchical
organizations and need also to work on creating resilient lateral
networks. He offers New Rightist answers to a number of disputed
questions within the White Nationalist community, including white
culpability for our decline, Hitler and National Socialism, the
Jewish question, the holocaust, the role of women, Christianity vs.
paganism, and the relationships of populism, elitism, and
democracy. He sets out some basic principles for creating a
growing, resilient, networked movement. Finally, he criticizes
distractions and dead-ends like "mainstreaming," conservatism,
"premature" populism, and political violence. Engagingly written
and constructively critical, Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
is an important contribution to the emerging North American New
Right. Praise for New Right vs. Old Right "Greg Johnson's basic
point is that we must work to create a metapolitics of explicit
white identity-that is, a movement that will develop 'the
intellectual and cultural foundations for effective White
Nationalist politics in North America, so that we can ultimately
create a white homeland or homelands on this continent.' Greg is
one of the reasons why I think this is a feasible project. . . .
Greg received his Ph.D. in philosophy, and it shows. His forte is
the well-developed argument presented in a lucid, easily understood
style. Nobody can complain about this book being filled with turgid
prose. And I can't find any major disagreements." -Kevin MacDonald,
from the Foreword "In New Right vs. Old Right, Greg Johnson lays
out his vision for a pro-white movement more focused on ideas,
education, and communication than on politics or thuggery. True to
this vision, his writing is extremely accessible. Throughout this
collection, Johnson breaks down complex philosophical concepts and
challenging ideas into tight, efficient sentences and effective
explanations. Johnson doesn't drone on trying to sound clever. Like
an enthusiastic professor, he truly wants his readers to understand
why he believes it is morally right for whites-and all peoples-to
determine their own collective destinies." -Jack Donovan, author of
The Way of Men "Dr. Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
delineates the differences between two 'Rights, ' without
repudiating the common philosophical origins of both in opposing
egalitarianism and other passe ideologies that continue to dominate
much of the world. The primary value of this collection of essays,
however, is that Dr. Johnson asks the perennial question, from our
side: "what is truth?" In doing so he lays the foundations for a
morality of the New Right. This book is therefore unique in the
English-speaking Rightist milieu that was, for much of the
post-1945 era, poorly served in comparison to its counterparts in
Europe. As such, Dr. Johnson's book will be of relevance to many
beyond the North American New Right, of which he is a founding
father." -Kerry Bolton, author of Artists of the Right
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