Magic and Modernism Part 1

Jack Donovan and C.B. Robertson discuss what Robertson calls "the myth of modernism" and the way in which it relies on "magic" or "sorcery."

Sources Mentioned:

- How to Do Things with Words by J.L. Austen

- The Oresteia ("Eumenides" especially) by Aeschylus

- Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of the Witches") by Heinreich Kramer

- The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros

- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

- Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard

- The Republic by Plato

Other directly subject-related books :

- The Phenomenology of Spirit and Introduction to the Philosophy of History by Georg Hegel (the magic that ordered 19th-century political thought forward)

- Counter Wokecraft by James Lindsay and Charles Pincourt (a modern Malleus Maleficarum)

- SJWs Always Lie and SJWs Always Double Down by Vox Day (another modern Malleus Maleficarum)

- The Machiavellians by James Burnham (explaining the importance of political formulae)

- The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer (the shield of Achilles in Iliad book 18 and Athena's intervention to end the blood feud in Odyssey book 24)

- The Anger of Achilles by Leonard Muellner (Importance of "menis")

- The entirety of James Lindsay's YouTube channel (tying all of these themes together, in relation to Hermeticism and Gnosticism)

Christopher Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy.

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Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project.

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