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Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity
More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety about economic globalization, affirmative action, and third-world immigration, flashpoint issues to many traditional groups in multicultural societies. A curious mixture of Aristocratic pagani
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Published
July 1st 2003
by New York University Press
(first published August 1st 2001)
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There's some quote I stumbled across on the Internets once before, from the Simpsons - to the effect of, "It's funny because they're serious about something so ridiculous."
Thus, this book.
While Goodrick-Clarke's book on the Occult Origins of the Nazi movement is still on my to-read list, this book is basically a sequel to it. Where the first book focused on the Nazi party in Germany, this book focuses on later neo-Nazi groups. The first two chapters consist of...more
Thus, this book.
While Goodrick-Clarke's book on the Occult Origins of the Nazi movement is still on my to-read list, this book is basically a sequel to it. Where the first book focused on the Nazi party in Germany, this book focuses on later neo-Nazi groups. The first two chapters consist of...more
This is a fairly good book, a rapid (rather than sustained) review of a wide range of figures and far-right phenomena (internationally): from Rockwell to occult nazism (Savitri Devi and Miguel Serrano) to Christian Identity, Odinism, and New World Order ('Illuminati') conspiracies. Helpfully, the book is well bibliographed. Goodrick-Clark is always sober, and authoritative. This book forms, as I said before, a good compliment to Gregor's richer (but somewhat quirkier -- I never cease to be ama...more
Goodrick-Clarke's subject sometimes works against him; many of these ideologies are truly esoteric, and thus difficult to place in a recognizable ideological context.
However, that obscurity is precisely what gives this book its limited value. This volume contains the most thorough examination of the links between Indo-Aryan mysticism and Nazi occult doctrine that I have ever read. While many studies of Nazi occult practices go no further than acknowledging the existence of secret rituals a...more
However, that obscurity is precisely what gives this book its limited value. This volume contains the most thorough examination of the links between Indo-Aryan mysticism and Nazi occult doctrine that I have ever read. While many studies of Nazi occult practices go no further than acknowledging the existence of secret rituals a...more
I won't claim that Black Sun was a fun read, but it was a good read. Theres a lot of information here, I learned much about Evola and Savitri Dev and Miguel Serrano and more about Christian Identity that I probably wanted to. These people are scary, and like everything else that gives me nightmares I turn it into gaming. In this case I have one player whose 1937 incarnation was a fascist organizer and I finally got around to reading this book for ideas. Since the same player has invested heavily...more
I first need to say that I didn’t finish reading this. I rented this from the library, rather excitedly, because I had wanted to read it since it was published. Unfortunately Goodrick-Clarke’s style of writing was overly ostentatious for me, a person who was only reading this text to learn about something they were very interested in learning about. His academic writing style, along with his use of non-lay phrasing and unapproachable aura gives the reader the feeling that the writer’s goal wa...more
This guy's book on Savitri Devi was really well written and balanced well as a book, so it was an easy and interesting read.
This book is kind of the opposite. It seems like a sloppily put together collection of names, dates, and events, peppered with too much of the author's own (mainstream right-wing) political views. Not to mention the chapter on black metal, which contains some of the worst writing/research I've ever seen.
Two stars only because the subject matter is so...more
This book is kind of the opposite. It seems like a sloppily put together collection of names, dates, and events, peppered with too much of the author's own (mainstream right-wing) political views. Not to mention the chapter on black metal, which contains some of the worst writing/research I've ever seen.
Two stars only because the subject matter is so...more
Impeccably researched.
A well-reaserched survey of post-WWII Nazi groups and their ideologies, how their concepts and groups grew and their relations among each other.
If you like noise, neo folk, or black metal you should read this, but most likely you already have.
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lots of inspirational stuff, not the racism/nazism but for fiction i mean.
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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke B.A. (Bristol), D.Phil. (Oxon) is a professor of Western Esotericism at University of Exeter and author of several books on esoteric traditions.
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