Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
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Relativism is the horse trader!
Relativism proves to be a gentle companion. Relativism is like Father Donissan's horse dealer. One can travel in his company. He is never boring, he stays in his place, and he demonstrates unfailing empathy. However, he doesn't know compassion. Is that a problem? Rather, it's an advantage; he doesn't contradict, he agrees… Continue reading
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Becoming oneself…
Isn't becoming oneself always about becoming someone else? What can become of someone who doesn't journey toward who they truly are? We must constantly bridge the gap between who we are and who we believe ourselves to be. What can embody someone who doesn't know who they are? A… Continue reading
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The quest for identity
In its mad quest to make us 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: some things cannot be acquired, among them otherness. To live one's identity, to be who one is, to inhabit one's name, to allow intimacy and… Continue reading
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In light of the values
Authority has lost its nobility along with humility. Authority has become synonymous with implacable order, unthinking force, and tyranny. What a reversal 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 about to say my mission—is to shatter the faith of some, and even of a third party: faith in affirmation, faith in denial, and faith in abstention; and this through 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 I have a medieval soul, and I believe that the soul of my homeland is medieval, that, by necessity, it has passed through the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Revolution, learning something from them, certainly, but without letting its soul be touched, preserving the spiritual heritage of those so-called foggy times. And quixotism is only… Continue reading
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Postscript (by Georges Mathieu)
If France's misfortunes are exemplary, it will take us thirty years to recover from the latest: that of the right's laxity combined with the left's sectarianism. For nearly half a century, we have been subjected to the terrorism of an intelligentsia successively corrupted by Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, socialism, and social democracy, without… Continue reading
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Antigone, defiant and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny. Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined as much by his roots as by his fruit. 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 fruit of varying quality… Continue reading
Antigone , counter-revolution , ethics , history , intimacy , forgiveness , religion , revolution , totalitarianism , vulgarity -
News from Ernest Hello on fear and its perfections
Fear in general, therefore, has perfections that evil lacks. Perhaps the crucifixion was felt more terribly 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, defiant and intimate (2/7. The funeral)
Part 2: The Funeral — “My dearest Ismene. I came this morning to tell you that I've taken care of everything. I used the same funeral home for both our 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 I jotted down in the margins of the marvelous Ostinato, I came across this gem among gems: Let us not veil our faces with our hands. There is no longer anything to venerate, no act of glory or intelligence to absolve a world seduced by force, spreading its defilement everywhere, and which… Continue reading
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News about Hyppolite Taine
He's a pedant, a pedant is a hollow, puffed-up mind that, because it's full of words, believes itself full of ideas, revels in its own phrases, and deceives itself to rule over others. He's a hypocrite who believes himself sincere, a Cain who fancies himself Abel. In this shrunken brain, given over to abstraction, and… Continue reading
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News from Nicolàs Gómez Dàvila
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, defiant and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the very first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity arises in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody action or reaction? What drives Antigone? Reaction never exists on its own, whereas action needs no one; it is legitimized by the act itself. Action always inaugurates something. Unlike what is often… Continue reading
Antigone , Charles Maurras , counter-revolution , ethics , history , intimacy , forgiveness , priest , religion , revolution