From Plato to Postmodernism

Contents

Foreword – iii

1. Introduction to Plato’s Republic – 1
2. The Myths of Plato – 25
3. Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics – 42
4. Our Marx, Only Better: Vico & the New Right – 68
5. Rousseau as Conservative – 83
6. Notes on Philosophical Dialectic – 97
7. Why Read Hegel? – 116
8. A Hole in Being: Notes on Negativity – 129
9. Notes on Nihilism – 133
10. Yeats’ Pagan Second Coming – 142
11. A Leveling Wind: Reading Camus’ The Stranger – 147
12. Alexandre Kojève & the End of History – 152
13. Postmodernism, Hedonism, & Death – 169
14. The Beginning & the End of History – 173
15. A Little Death: Hegelian Reflections on Piercing & Tattoos – 178
16. Postmodernism vs. Identity – 181
17. Why We Meet as We Do: Thoughts on Liberal Education – 193

Index – 201

About the Author

Greg Johnson, Ph.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd. and Editor of North American New Right, its webzine (http://www.counter-currents.com/) and occasional print journal.

He is the author of ten other books: Confessions of a Reluctant Hater (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2010; second, expanded ed., 2016); New Right vs. Old Right (Counter-Currents, 2013); Truth, Justice, & a Nice White Country (Counter-Currents, 2015); In Defense of Prejudice (Counter-Currents, 2017); You Asked for It: Selected Interviews, vol. 1 (Counter-Currents, 2017); The White Nationalist Manifesto (Counter-Currents, 2018); and Toward a New Nationalism (Counter-Currents, 2019).

Under the pen name Trevor Lynch, he has published Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (Counter-Currents, 2012), Son of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (Counter-Currents, 2015), and Return of the Son of Trevor Lynch’s CENSORED Guide to the Movies (Counter-Currents, 2019).

He has also edited many books, including North American New Right, vol. 1 (Counter-Currents, 2012); North American New Right, vol. 2 (Counter-Currents, 2018); Dark Right: Batman Viewed from the Right (with Gregory Hood) (Counter-Currents, 2018); and The Alternative Right (Counter-Currents, 2018).

His writings have been translated into Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.