#voegelin

[nicklloydnow]

“A political organization exists in time, and as a recognizable unit originates in time. In the cosmological style of symbolization, however, there is no flow of historical time articulated by an originating event. The foundation of a government is rather conceived as an event in the cosmic order of the gods, of which the earthly event is the analogous expression. What today we would call the category of historical time is symbolized by origination in a cosmic decree.” - Eric Voegelin, ‘Order and History: Israel and Revelation’ (1956) [p. 25]

#voegelin #eric voegelin #order and history #Israel and revelation #jesus #cthulhu #time #cosmos #politics

[geopolicraticus]

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Voegelin and Husserl on History: An Addendum   

Eric Voegelin wrote a long letter to Alfred Schütz about Husserl’s philosophy of history; I discuss this letter and some if its ramifications. Husserl as an arch-rationalist and Voegelin, interested as he was in politics, mythology, and symbols, diverged on the role of reason in history; their distinctively different perspectives give us a unique lens for viewing the relationship of rationality to history.  

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#Voegelin #Husserl #phenomenology #philosophy of history #Gnosticism #rationalism #Youtube

[tonreihe]

Flannery O’Connor, to Ted R. Spivey, September 28, 1958

#flannery o'connor #eric voegelin #lolwut

[benhurdebastianiteixeiralove]

ERIC VOEGELIN - UM DOS AUTORES MAIS PROFUNDOS E INCOMPREENDIDOS DO SÉC. XX

Eric Voegelin foi um professor austríaco de filosofia política. Lecionou em muitas das principais Universidades europeias e conviveu com alguns dos maiores intelectuais de sua época, como Friedrich Hayek, Hans Kelsen e Leo Strauss. No livro Reflexões Autobiográficas, Eric Voegelin mostra que foi um dos filósofos mais originais e incompreendidos do século XX. Segundo o próprio autor: “Tenho em…

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#biografia de eric voegelin #brasil paralelo #brasilparalelo #eric voegelin #filósofos #filosofia #hans kelsen #olavo de carvalho #pensamento #Pensamento filosófico de Eric Voegelin

[adrienpaole]

The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

Eric Voegelin

#eric voegelin #christianity #political philosophy #philosophy #politics #history #gnosticism

[liberty1776]

Gnostics appear under many different labels, all rooted in the same mistakes. They can call themselves fascists, communists, National Socialists, progressives, Marxists, positivists, and or psychoanalysts, but they are all the same, just varied. In one of his most famous passages, written for his University of Munich lectures, Voegelin claimed:

“The attempt at world destruction will not destroy the world, but will only increase the disorder of society. The gnostic’s flight from a truly dreadful, confusing, and oppressive state of the world is understandable. But the order of the ancient world was renewed by that movement which strove through loving action to revive the practice of the ‘serious play’ (to use Plato’s expression)—that is, by Christianity.” (Voegelin, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, 12).

In essence, Voegelin believed, each of these Gnostics wanted to murder God.

#Eric Voegelin #Gnosticism

[kazimirovich]

all i can say forever

i'm jewish. as a child i moved from a rural town where my family saw acts of rage and hate, emigrated from a country with a horrifying history with jews. you know the one, though there are many. i'm 31 now and i have seen and experienced antisemitism my whole life, in the many places i've lived, to varying degrees. not that i should need to qualify this before everything i have to say - but i know what that looks and feels like. in my life there have been times at which i have been in danger. i choose to stay out of danger in all the ways i was taught. (part of that is not moving into someone else's house uninvited (more in a sec))

(well-meaning?) people want me to have a relationship with israel. they are very invested in assuming i have some connection to this shifting space, this project. they associate my german jewishness with a place i have never been and never felt. home, for me, is the uncle i haven't seen in too long, the ailing brother of my mother, the same red nose. it's fresh sheets hung over dry summer grass, it's bavarian farmland, it's thick liptauer on pumpernickel bread warmed over the wood stove. it's my grandmother's dining room and rough fenceposts, borders we disrespected as kids. home is also here and there and where my family is, where my friends are, where i've built myself.

in a geopolitical sense, it is clear that the antisemitic position is to sequester jews into a partitioned state conceived of by non-jews after the sunset of our most recent attempted decimation. antisemitic, to tell jews "move here, be at home in this space of constant war. impose war on others. fight for a tenuous link to an ancestry you've never seen or studied." in a religious sense, sort of a key feature of judaism since the second exile is that - we're in exile. this is an orthodox argument, but i have to admit that rabbinical discourse is pretty convincing. the secular establishment of the israeli state in an attempt to accelerate any so-called redemption has left us at a point where i really don't know what hope we have for that to occur. if you believe in god, how can you believe they are looking down at us, impressed

because beyond theoretical or spiritual reasons, the bloodlust, the vengefulness, the racism, the violation of law (i know that laws are agreed upon, are broken all the time by those who grant themselves impunity), the evil of this continuance, the evil which grinds babies and text and memory, gnashes it all in its droning machinery, its cold horror and inhumane (unhuman) practice, seemingly perfected... it is obvious to anyone with a single thought that it is an ethnic cleansing. the forcible "movement" (murder) of people of one group from land people of another group want. is ethnic cleansing. we are watching it in real time, and the world stands by and in many cases, it endorses, it beats and imprisons those who are brave enough to stand up to it, it rewards cowardly men in war rooms who having read fukuyama and arendt and maybe even voegelin conveniently forget themselves, because they can afford to, and wave their hands and make calls and decimate entire families cities sovereignties. and liberalism - that fickle ideology whose sole search is for the justification of atrocity - sends its thoughts and prayers, and emphasizes how just horrible both sides are, and conveniently forgets the histories that have led each "side" to this. convenient.

and i can't do anything about it. i can perfectly articulate every well-thought-out argument, i can cry the most frustrated tears from the well of my chest and i can scream that this isn't right, because it isn't, but nobody fucking cares. those who matter have decided for those who don't.

if you align yourself with israel, or feel any sympathy toward the supposed plight of active settlers (not a neutral spot to be in, by the way - another rational argument), i hope you know how thoroughly you've been manipulated. how successful the project of those with the power to decide we don't matter has been. you and i don't matter. so-called free thinkers meme. you fucking idiot. you genocidal maniac.

not putting this under a cut. fuck you. read it all and remember my jewish name and keep it far out of your mouth the next time you tell someone why the people you've told me are my neighbors deserve a flattening.

#israel #palestine

[vigilantkatholixx]

A Brief Introduction

A Handbook of Traditional Living

II. First Steps

Julius Evola – Men Among the Ruins Rene Guenon – The Reign of Quantity and The Sign of the Times Hans Herman Hoppe – Democracy: The God That Failed Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn – The Menace of the Herd Anthony Ludovici – A Defence of Aristocracy Plinio Correa de Oliveira – Revolution and Counter-Revolution Thomas Carlyle – Heroes and Hero Worship

III. Beyond the Pale

Oswald Spengler – The Decline of the West Francis Parker Yockey – Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics Julius Evola – Revolt Against the Modern World Rene Guenon – The Crisis of the Modern World Carl Schmitt – Political Theology Ricardo Duchesne – The Uniqueness of Western Civilization Eric Voegelin – From Enlightenment to Revolution Eric Voegelin – Modernity Without Restraint José Ortega y Gasset – The Revolt of the Masses

IV. Further Explorations

Julius Evola – Ride the Tiger Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn – Liberty or Equality Satoshi Kanazawa – The Intelligence Paradox H.L. Mencken – Notes on Democracy Arthur Moeller van den Bruck – Germany’s Third Empire David Stove – On Enlightenment Christopher Lasch – The Culture of Narcissism Paul Johnson – Intellectuals Theodore Dalrymple – Our Culture, What’s Left of It Theodore Dalrymple – Life at the Bottom Thomas Sowell – Affirmative Action Around the World Wyndham Lewis – Time and Western Man Kevin Macdonald – The Culture of Critique

V. High Culture

Roger Scruton – Beauty Roger Scruton – The Aesthetics of Architecture Roger Scruton – Understanding Music Matthew Arnold – Culture and Anarchy Harold Bloom – The Western Canon

#books 2

[jgmail]

FRIEDRICH GEORG JÜNGER Y LOS MITOS GRIEGOS: APOLO, PAN Y DIONISO

Por Giovanni Sessa

Está en las librerías un texto que no sólo nos permite captar la grandeza especulativa y literaria de una de las figuras "secretas", aparentemente marginales, de la cultura del siglo XX, sino que también nos enfrenta a la pobreza de nuestro tiempo, al "desastre" de la modernidad, al aislamiento atomista del hombre frente al cosmos. Nos referimos al volumen de Friedrich Georg Jünger, hermano del más conocido Ernst, Apolo, Pan, Dioniso publicado por la editorial Le Lettere y editado por Mario Bosincu, germanista de la Universidad de Sassari (pp. 283, euro 18,00). En 1943 salió un ágil opúsculo con el mismo título, al que el autor dio continuidad con un ensayo titulado I Titani (Los Titanes) en 1944. En 1947 los dos libros, con el añadido de dos capítulos dedicados a los Héroes y a Píndaro, se reunieron en el volumen Mitos griegos. La edición italiana que presentamos es una traducción de este libro. Hay que reconocer a Bosincu el mérito de una edición impecable.

  Estas páginas representan: "uno de los tesoros de ese continente sumergido conocido como literatura de la emigración interior [...] cuyos exponentes permanecieron en la Alemania nazi, viviendo como "exiliados" en su patria" (pp.8-9). En efecto, durante la República de Weimar, Friedrich Georg, con su obra La marcha del nacionalismo, se había fijado como objetivo "hacer de los lectores [...] el otro sujeto que podía transformar la joven república en una communitas totalitaria" (p. 110). Participó así en el heterogéneo y vivo movimiento cultural de los intelectuales revolucionarios-conservadores, cuyos ideales fueron traicionados por el nacionalsocialismo gobernante. En el bien informado, amplio y orgánico ensayo introductorio, Bosincu presenta los momentos genealógicos de esta cultura antimoderna, respuesta a la crisis inducida por la afirmación de la Gestell, del implante tecnocientífico al servicio de la Forma-Capital. En particular, se detiene, entre otros, en las figuras de Schiller, Carlyle y Chateaubriand. Este último, en el Genio del cristianismo apelaba, contra el presente histórico en el que le había tocado vivir, a: "los intereses del corazón" (p. 41).

  Apeló, en consonancia con la sensibilidad romántica, a un conocimiento distinto de la razón calculadora. En sus páginas cargadas de emoción, lo que emerge es: "tras el sermo propheticus, el sermo mysticus y la escritura ascética [...] un estilo psíquico alternativo al imperante" (p. 41) en la época contemporánea, que tendía a realizar lo útil mediante la reducción de la naturaleza a res extensa a disposición del dueño del ente, el hombre. Los antimodernistas, que tanto influyeron en Friedrich Georg, no se propusieron, sic y simpliciter, explorar los rasgos de una posible "otra subjetividad" que la moderna, sino que pretendían realizarla utilizando el rasgo demiúrgico de sus escritos. Básicamente, explica Bosincu, refiriéndose a la exégesis del gnosticismo de Eric Voegelin, estaban impregnados de un verdadero horror por lo existente y se convirtieron en portadores de un conocimiento soteriológico. El gnóstico: "conoce la matriz de la miseria (temporal) del hombre [...] está en posesión de una soteriología que "da al hombre la conciencia de su degradación y la certeza de la restauración de su ser original"" (p. 53). La huida de lo moderno se centra en la "soteriología de la interioridad". Jünger, según el editor, experimentó dos fases diferentes de esta actitud neognóstica: en su juventud estuvo cerca del prometeanismo 'wotanista' del nazismo y de la 'movilización total'.

 Esta referencia pretendía construir una subjetividad "activa", impulsada por la voluntad de poder, destinada a superar al individuo burgués. En la fase de "emigración interior", testimoniada de forma paradigmática por Apolo, Pan y Dioniso, a través de la influencia del mundo espiritual helénico mediado por la lectura de Walter Friedrich Otto, y anticipando la psicología profunda de Hillman, Jünger se convirtió en el portador del "hombre total" schilleriano, en cuya psique retorna el poder titánico para reconciliarse con las potestades de los tres dioses en cuestión. Esta metamorfosis indujo a Nuestro Señor a madurar: "El respeto por la vida en su naturaleza elemental" al tomar conciencia de que: "el presupuesto de la modernización tecnológica es [...] la desanimación de la naturaleza" (p. 99). La Physis se experimenta como algo que trasciende el horizonte humano: existe una clara brecha entre el flujo del devenir y la historia, acumuladora de ruinas, y los ritmos eternos y cíclicos de la naturaleza. El paganismo jüngeriano es un "paganismo del espíritu" que aborda una profunda dimensión inclusiva: "el noúmeno del que brotan la historia y la experiencia empírica" (p. 111). El autor demuestra que se adhiere a una perspectiva mítica: cree que en cada entidad, en la interioridad del hombre y en sus actividades, actúa un dios. Lo divino palpita, se experimenta. La técnica en sí no es una mera expresión de la razón instrumental, sino que tiene raíces míticas, titánicas, prometeicas.

 Para escapar a su dominio cosificador, el hombre debe recuperar la dimensión imaginal: sólo en ella, no en los conceptos que estatizan lo real, es posible rastrear el aliento de Apolo, Pan y Dioniso, la eterna metamorfosis anímica de la physis. Tales dioses están en una relación de "antítesis fraternal" (p. 244). Para recuperar su significado, es necesario fijarse en la coincidentia oppositorum, en la lógica del tercero incluido: "Apolo es exaltado como arquetipo en la base de un estilo cognitivo y existencial que privilegia la razón contemplativa y el sentido de la medida" (p. 135), antitético a la hybris prometeica tanto del nazismo como del capitalismo cognitivo de nuestros días. Pan encarna el "principio de placer" frente al "principio de rendimiento", la ligereza de vivir que se puede experimentar cuando nos situamos en la naturaleza salvaje, percibida como ajena por el hombre moderno. La naturaleza se basta a sí misma, de lo que también era consciente Karl Löwith. Dioniso, por último, es el dios que libera de las fijaciones identitarias, de la dimensión teleológica de la vida. Su potestas pone en jaque mate a la "la locura envuelta en el disfraz de la razón" (p. 139).

  El Jünger de la "emigración interior", en nuestra opinión, es portador de un contra-movimiento gnóstico no-neognóstico (Gian Franco Lami), capaz de reconducir al hombre a la physis, a la vida eternamente brotante del cosmos. El cosmos, en las páginas de Apolo, Pan, Dioniso, no es enmendable, como creían los gnósticos, y con ellos los cristianos y sus sustitutos modernos (positivistas, marxistas, etc.) porque, como afirma Heráclito (fr. 30): "Es idéntico para todas las cosas, ninguno de los dioses ni de los hombres lo hizo, sino que siempre fue y es y será fuego eternamente vivo, que según la medida se enciende y según la medida se apaga". Apolo, Pan, Dioniso demuestra, como ha argumentado Calasso, que los antiguos dioses han encontrado cobijo en la literatura. Esta es la extraordinaria modernidad de los antimodernistas, de la que hablaba Antoine Compagnon.

Fuente: paginefilosofali.it

Traducción por Enric Ravello Barber

#pensamiento #griegos #Friederich Georg Jünger #mito

[claudiosuenaga]

A DESCENSÃO ONTOLÓGICA da Civilização Ocidental da Era Moderna até a barbárie atual segundo Voegelin

Por Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga

Como atinou o filósofo Eric Voegelin, desde que a ordem divina foi preterida pela “razão”, e esta pelo “útil”, seguiram-se outras etapas de descensão ontológica — às forças tecnológicas da produção, em Marx, à seleção natural, em Darwin, e, finalmente, aos impulsos biológicos na psicologia de Freud. Assim, a substância da ordem desceu, na escala ontológica a partir de Deus, rolando ladeira abaixo pela razão, pelo pragmatismo, pelo utilitarismo, pelas forças de produção e determinantes genéticos, até chegar aos meros impulsos biológicos.

Este deslizamento da substância da ordem pelos níveis da hierarquia ontológica, do século 18 ao presente, vem completando o seu curso nesta nossa época eivada de gnosticismo, materialismo, cientificismo e niilismo, esvaziada de qualquer sentido, imbuída de “razão”, mas desprovida de substância ordenante e já sem qualquer participação na ratio aeterna.

A etapa final, com o vácuo criado pela abolição do supremo bem como fonte de ordem racional, será deixar em segundo plano a evolução biológica e substituir a hipossuficiência humana pelo primado da Inteligência Artificial e do Transhumanismo, de modo a alcançar o patamar de pós-humano?

Esse aspecto da obra de Voegelin, bem como diversos outros assuntos atuais emergentes a ele entrelaçados, porque resultantes dessa descensão ontolológica, estão sendo postos em discussão por Cláudio Suenaga nesta live.

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[nicklloydnow]

“Cosmological symbolization is neither a theory nor an allegory. It is the mythical expression of the participation, experienced as real, of the order of society in the divine being that also orders the cosmos. To be sure, the cosmos and the political cosmion remain separate existences, but one stream of creative and ordering being flows through them so massively that, as we have seen, the god is the owner of a temple, while its priest and ruler is only its tenant farmer; the earth-wide rule of Marduk is established in heaven, while the rise to power of the earthly king is only the implementation of the divine appointment; and the geographical order on the earth is the image of the original in the heavens. The participation is so intimate, indeed, that in spite of the separateness of existences, empire and cosmos are parts of one embracing order. It is with justification, then, that one can speak of the Babylonian idea of a cosmos ordered as a state, and that cosmos and empire are in substance one entity.” - Eric Voegelin, ‘Order and History: Israel and Revelation’ (1956) [p. 27]

#voegelin #eric voegelin #order and history #israel and revelation #marduk #babylon #cosmos #divine #empire #as above so below

[geopolicraticus]

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Husserl and Philosophy of History as a Crisis Discipline

Monday 08 April 2024 is the 165th anniversary of the birth of Edmund Husserl (08 April 1859 – 27 April 1938), who was born in Proßnitz, Moravia, on this date in 1859.

Husserl is known for developing the method of phenomenology, but in the final years of his life he turned to the problems of history as a philosophical response to contemporaneous crises. Husserl was an arch-rationalist who saw the pursuit of reason as the infinite task of humanity. I argue that there is a path that can be traced from Plato through Pelagius and Siger of Brabant to Husserl, and it is in this tradition that Husserl’s philosophy of history is to be located.

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[onetwofeb]

July 8, 2022

Lee Trepanier Michael J. Colebrook. The Recurrence of the End Times. Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022.

The past decade hasn’t been kind to Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis. The emergence of China as a world power and rival to the United States, not to mention Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has raised seriously reservations about it. Fukuyama’s enlightenment optimism in technocracy, secular rationality, and the bureaucratic state—market-oriented liberalism—appears no longer as the paradigm to which all states aspire. In fairness, Fukuyama himself recognizes the problems that pre-political identity poises to liberalism. The universal recognition that liberalism demands is increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on the nation, religion, ethnicity, and gender. However, as Graham McAleer notes, while Fukuyama’s “end of history thesis is bruised around the edges . . . he believes its core holding is still valid.” The reason that this account of history is still attractive and alluring because we “want to know what moves and shakes the world.” Fukuyama’s theory satisfies that itch. At the core of Fukuyama’s claims is Kojève interpretation of Hegel’s theory of history: history has a directional component that moves humans to greater rationality and self-recognition. In The Recurrence of the End Times. Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements, Michael J. Colebrook puts these thinkers in conversation with Eric Voegelin, who in his more affable moments refer to Hegel’s philosophy as “Gnostic,” “apocalyptic,” and representative of the crisis of modernity. But for Colebrook Voegelin, along with Fukuyama, misreads Hegel. [...]

[purasangree]

"La muerte del espíritu es el precio del progreso."

✍ Eric Voegelin.

[goat-scape-onomics]

CLASH, UNITE, REITERATE: VAST ALCOVE

ORLANDO: [looking at the enchanting flora] It’s a beautiful place we find ourselves in. I meet men as I am, (1) but I can’t wonder why you are her in Palermo. You and I seem worlds apart.

BRUCE: We are beginning to see, (…) that the really advanced high technology is liquidy and drippy and self organizing and not at all rigid. (2)

ORLANDO: [stroking the leaves of a nearby plant] And therein lies our fundamental disagreement. Your methods may bring order, but at what cost? The (..)"naked" reality can only be gained from a standpoint beyond good and evil, we must rely in the search for truth on the "amoral," self reflective statements of those who have assumed such standpoints. (3) That’s what I trust in.

BRUCE: [Cautiously] Trust alone can’t protect us from the threats we face. We need vigilance, not naivety.

ORLANDO: Your world is a cold and calculated one. The difficulties fall apart when the burden of fate and responsibility is accepted with humility. (4) I dream of a world where compassion reigns supreme.

BRUCE: Most people believe that such conceptions are insubstantial and no different from dreams. (5)

ORLANDO: Infringement of (…) (your) principle would tear apart the whole fabric of society. (6) You sacrifice the essence for the illusion of security.

1) Foucault, The Courage of the Truth, 2) Eshun, More Brilliant Than the Sun Adventures in Sonic Fiction, 3) Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason, 4) Voegelin, Order and History 2, 5) Erasmus, Paraphrases on the Epistles to Timothy Titus and Philemon the Epistles of Peter and Jude, 6) Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy Volume 3 Part 1 The Sophists

[aeniumbra]

“Get ready. In the next few years, the disorder in the world will reach the level of permanent hallucination, and lies and insanity will reign unchecked everywhere. I do not say this because of any prophecy, but because I have studied the plans of the three global empires and I know that none of them has the slightest respect for the structure of reality.

Each one is possessed by what Eric Voegelin called 'metastatic faith', the mad belief in a sudden saving transformation that will free humanity from everything that constitutes the very logic of the terrestrial condition.

In war or peace, disputing to the death or reconciling in a macabre agreement, each will promise the impossible and narrow ever more the margin of the possible. The Catholic Church is the only force that could, in the midst of this, restore a minimum of balance and sanity, but, led by insane prelates, sellouts and traitors, it seems more committed to surrendering to the spirit of chaos and making a good appearance. before the helmsmen of the disaster.

However, in the depths of the confusion many souls will be miraculously awakened to a vision of the deep and all-encompassing order that continues to reign, ignored by the world. Many consciences will awaken to the fact that the historical setting does not have its own ordering principle in itself and only makes sense when viewed on the scale of infinity, of heaven and hell.”

Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, in the book “Diário Filosófico - Volume 1”. https://videeditorial.com.br/diario-filosofico-volume-1

#quotes