TRADITION AND TRADITIONALISM

Posted by admin on November 10th, 2011

The round table
TRADITION AND TRADITIONALISM
(Dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Rene Guenon)

11th of November 2011, the city of Donetsk, Ukraine

11.30 – registration (in a hall on the 3rd  floor of the 12th housing of DonNTU)

12.00-15.30 – work of sections

Section 1. WORLDVIEW-RELATED AND SOCIAL-PHILOSOPHICAL FACETS OF TRADITIONALISM (12.302) …read more

The Initiate – Journal of Traditional Studies (Review)

Posted by admin on September 27th, 2011

the initiate

As it is written at the ARKTOS web-site: The Initiate is a journal which offers a forum to serious writing on traditionalism, spirituality and related topics, seeking to restore something of the lost wisdom of our ancestors to the modern world.

In the past there were many traditionalist editions, magazines, publications. Nowadays people read less and what is even worse – they read less by quality while quantity can remain the same (social network messages can contain lots of text). So I was very happy that in our digital world which is overwhelmed by useless information, such edition as The Initiate was created. There must be a platform for the traditionalists and people who oppose modern world to share their knowledge, experience, thoughts.  By the intuition I thought that The Initiate is in fact this platform. And my thoughts approved when I received the magazine.

In Ukraine we have problems both with book-publishing industry and the translations. Many important works were not translated to Ukrainian. Even now when we witness the rising interest in the traditionalist thought at academic field, there are no Ukrainian translations of Rene Guenon, Julius Evola and other thinkers (whom we can now call classics).  So Ukrainian researchers and traditionalists have to use Russian translations, which are also not so easy to find and sometimes they lack quality (i.e. some of the Guenon’s translations). Of course it’s easier for those who are fluent in other languages; it’s easy to order books from the internet or sometimes just to find the needed texts online.  But French, German, Italian are not so widely spoken by Ukrainians as English. Nowadays many young Ukrainians speak English well and many are fluent in it. That’s why English books and translations give us another access to the texts, which sometimes have no Russian translation. The Arktos is a great example of successful base which not only provides the classic books but also publishes new ones. One can dislike or reject the value of English language but it is the fact that it is most spoken international language and the suitable mean of communication for many traditionalists. …read more

Congress of Ukrainian Monarchists

Posted by admin on September 8th, 2011

Recent events in the world, Egypt, Tunisia. Forecast of future wars, revolutions, separatism and disasters

Posted by admin on February 10th, 2011

On Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 14:00  will be the XIX session of the Ukrainian Traditionalist Club.

Subject: “Recent events in the world, Egypt, Tunisia. Forecast of future wars, revolutions, separatisms and disasters“.

The presentations and discussion will take place. Guests from abroad: …read more

Remembrance day of Louis XVI

Posted by admin on February 9th, 2011

Remembrance day of Louis XVI

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Synthesis of poetry and politics in the outlook of Charles Maurras and the ideology of Action Française

Posted by admin on December 16th, 2010

charles maurrasOn Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 15:00 will be the XVIII session of the Ukrainian Traditionalist Club.

Subject: Synthesis of poetry and politics in the outlook of Charles Maurras and the ideology of Action Française

Speaker: Ivan Gomza, a holder of French Government research grant, a joint PhD student of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and University Paris X-Nanterre. Currently preparing his PhD thesis comparing the social utopias of far-right movements in inter-war France and Ukraine. …read more

Intertraditionale

Posted by admin on August 17th, 2010

intertraditionaleInternational community in defense of The Tradition “Intertraditionale” invites to the official presentation of its publishing house, which opens with issue of the international almanac “Intertraditionale”.

The almanac presents program fare of the organization, as well as scientific studies of issues relating to The Tradition and Revolution. Among texts by our authors we also publish translations of such foreign authorities as A. de Benoist (France), T. Southgate (Great Britain), K. Bolton (New Zealand).

The almanac “Intertraditionale”, edited with the participation of the project “Bronze Age”, marks a new milestone in the history of Traditionalism and Conservative Revolution.

Following authors and activists of the Intertraditionale participate in the presentation:

• Maxim Borozenec (Denmark), chairman of cultural and social organization “Nordsolen”
• Oleg Fomin (Moscow, Russia), coordinator of the Orthodox movement “Russia Prolife”, chief editor of newspaper “Voice of Bethlehem”
• Alexander Volynsky (Israel), coordinator of organization “Followers of the Ashkenazi Culture”
• Oleg Gutsulyak (Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine), director of research institute ISANS

…as well as members of the Ukrainian Traditionalist Club and representatives of the press.

Besides the presentation of the almanac, our event also includes guest reports and open discussion on issues relating to The Tradition and Revolution.

The event takes place on Saturday August 21st, Kiev, Ukraine, metro station “Hydropark”, pavilion “Nika”, beginning at 17.00.

Program:

17:00 – 17:30 Official introduction and presentation of the almanac
17:45 – 18:45 Reports, 1 part
18:45 – 19:15 Break
19:15 – 20:00 Reports, 2 part
20:00 – Debate

Transformation of Ernst Jünger’s Alternative to the Bourgeois Individual

Posted by admin on July 27th, 2010

Olena Semenyaka

Transformation of Ernst Jünger’s Alternative to the Bourgeois Individual

Introduction

Ernst Jünger’s personality and writings have always been surrounded by heated debates between his admirers and haters. Quite expectedly, the main source of this passionate attitude lays in Ernst Jünger’s biography, namely his undeniable ideological commitment in the development of National Socialism. Although in philosophical-political relation he is a foremost member of the Conservative Revolution, the later is equally arguable phenomenon because of its historical connectedness with the totalitarian regimes.

However, the reason why the Conservative Revolution is also called “The Third Position” or “The Third Way” is the impossibility to refer it to some kind of a right or left ideology. The same is sound in Jünger’s case for his political beliefs have never walked hand in hand with those of National Socialism. This difference became the most explicit in the post-war writings of Jünger. Our research will focus on the transformation of Jüngerian alternative to the bourgeois individual as the gradual crystallization of the genuine conservative-revolutionary ideal of a human. Moreover, we will argue that namely postideological “end of the history” warrants the possibility to testify unchangeable since the Weimar Republic or whatsoever else essential core of the phenomenon. Therefore, starting with Jünger’s journalism during the Weimar years resulted in the Conservative Revolution manifesto “The Worker: Domination and Gestalt” (1932), we will proceed to his far later work, that is the futuristic novel “Eumeswil” (1977).

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Right and left theories within the Tradition

Posted by admin on July 27th, 2010

Saturday, July 31, 2010, at 15:00 of the XVI session of the Ukrainian Traditionalist Club.

Subject: “Right and left theories within the Tradition

- “Third Way” as a critic and revolution from the right. On the applicability of the principle of “beating the enemy with his weapon” – Olena Semenyaka (UTC)

- “Introduction to Arheocracy: perspectives of socialist theory” – Maxim Borozenets (Denmark), Chairman of Nordsolen and admin of Intertraditional.

- “Right Socialism: Theory and Practice” – Edward Yurchenko (UTC)

- Fourth Political Theory – Vladimir Kireev (Russia), Head of  “Future Today ” Club

- Arheofuturism against globalization “- Andrei Voloshin – (UTC, ARFA) …read more

The Concept of a Specific Human Type in the Conservative Revolution (on the example of Jünger’s Anarch and Evola’s Right Wing Anarchist)

Posted by admin on July 23rd, 2010

This article explores similar personifications of the Conservative Revolutionary concept of a specific human type in the late works of Ernst Jünger and Julius Evola represented by the models of Anarch and the right-wing anarchist accordingly.

Key words: the specific human type, Conservative Revolution, Anarch, right-wing anarchist. …read more