Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
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Relativism is the horse dealer!
Relativism proves to be a gentle companion. Relativism is Abbé Donissan's horse dealer. One can travel in his company. He doesn't bore, he stays in his place, and he demonstrates unfailing empathy. However, he doesn't know compassion. Is this a problem? More of an advantage; he doesn't contradict, he agrees. Continue reading
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Become yourself...
Isn't becoming oneself always about becoming a little bit of someone else? What can someone become who doesn't move towards who they are? We must constantly bridge the gap between who we are and who we believe we are. What can someone who doesn't know who they are embody? Continue reading
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The quest for identity
In its mad quest to make people believe that we can choose everything all the time, the modern era has methodically replaced being with having. Yet this logic, this ideology, has its limits: certain things cannot be acquired, among them: otherness. Living one's identity, being what one is, inhabiting one's name, allowing intimacy and Continue reading
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Based on the values
Authority has lost its nobility along with humility. Authority has become a synonym for implacable order, thoughtless force, and tyranny. What an inversion of values! Whereas, according to Antigone, authority prevented tyranny! The modern era has this impression of authority because it has been trampled underfoot by Continue reading
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Unamuno on his quixotic quest
My work – I was going to say my mission – is to break the faith of one and all, and even of a third party: faith in affirmation, faith in negation and faith in abstention; and this by faith in faith itself. It is to fight all those who resign themselves, Continue reading
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Unamuno on Don Quixote
I feel a medieval soul and I have the idea that the soul of my homeland is medieval, that, by force, it has passed through the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Revolution, learning something from them, fine, but without letting its soul be touched, preserving the spiritual heritage of these times that we call foggy. And Quixotism is only Continue reading
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Afterword (by Georges Mathieu)
If the "misfortunes of France are exemplary," it will take us thirty years to recover from the last one: that of the laxity of the right combined with the sectarianism of the left. For nearly half a century, we have been suffering the terrorism of an intelligentsia successively gangrened by Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, socialism, social democracy, without Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined by his roots as well as by his fruits. Man, like the tree, depends on external and internal elements to reach maturity. Man resembles this trunk sculpted by trials leaning on its roots and bearing fruits more or less Continue reading
Antigone , counter-revolution , ethics , history , intimacy , forgiveness , religion , revolution , totalitarianism , vulgarity -
News from Ernest Hello about fear and its perfections
Fear in general, then, has perfections that evil does not. Perhaps the crucifixion was felt in a more terrible way in the Garden of Olives than on the cross. For on the cross, it was felt in reality. In the Garden of Olives, it was felt in spirit. Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The Funeral — "My dearest Ismene. I came this morning to tell you that I took care of everything. I used the same funeral directors for our two brothers. I couldn't choose, and since our brothers didn't leave any last wishes, I took matters into my own hands to Continue reading
Antigone , counter-revolution , ethics , history , intimacy , death , forgiveness , priest , religion , revolution -
News from Louis-René des Forêts
On this rainy Sunday, rereading the notes taken in the margins of the marvelous Ostinato, this nugget among nuggets: Let us not veil our faces with our hands. There is no longer any place to venerate, no act of glory or intelligence to absolve a world seduced by force spreading its filth everywhere, and which Continue reading
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News from Hyppolite Taine
He is a pedant, the pedant is the hollow and inflated mind which because it is full of words believes itself to be full of ideas, enjoys its sentences and deceives itself to rule others. He is a hypocrite who believes himself to be sincere, a Cain who takes himself for Abel. In this shrinking brain, given over to abstraction, and Continue reading
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News from Nicolàs Gómez Davila
Let us call a totalitarian state the one that results from the attempt to replace social integration, destroyed by the liberal and democratic mentality, with state integration. Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity sets in in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody action or reaction? What moves Antigone? Reaction never exists by itself, whereas action needs no one; it legitimizes itself in the act. Action always inaugurates something. Unlike what is often Continue reading
Antigone , Charles Maurras , counter-revolution , ethics , history , intimacy , forgiveness , priest , religion , revolution