The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity by Dominique Venner

By Dominique Venner

The surprise of heritage: we are living it, neither understanding or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the area have entered right into a new period of suggestion, attitudes, and powers. This surprise of historical past makes transparent the truth that there's no such factor as an insurmountable future. The time will come for Europe to rouse, to answer the demanding situations of immigration, poisonous ideologies, the perils of globalism, and the confusion that assails her. yet less than what stipulations? that's the query to which this ebook responds. Conceived within the type of a full of life and dynamic interview with a historian who, after enjoying heritage himself, by no means ceased to check and replicate upon it. during this textual content, the 1st of his significant works to seem in English, Dominique Venner recounts the good hobbies of ecu background, the beginning of its inspiration, and its tragedies. He proposes new paths and provides strong examples to chase away decadence, and to appreciate the background within which we're immersed and during which we lead our lives.

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By Dominique Venner

The surprise of heritage: we are living it, neither understanding or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the area have entered right into a new period of suggestion, attitudes, and powers. This surprise of historical past makes transparent the truth that there's no such factor as an insurmountable future. The time will come for Europe to rouse, to answer the demanding situations of immigration, poisonous ideologies, the perils of globalism, and the confusion that assails her. yet less than what stipulations? that's the query to which this ebook responds. Conceived within the type of a full of life and dynamic interview with a historian who, after enjoying heritage himself, by no means ceased to check and replicate upon it. during this textual content, the 1st of his significant works to seem in English, Dominique Venner recounts the good hobbies of ecu background, the beginning of its inspiration, and its tragedies. He proposes new paths and provides strong examples to chase away decadence, and to appreciate the background within which we're immersed and during which we lead our lives.

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The new regime put in place by de Gaulle was not the nationalist revolution of which we had dreamed, and the fate of Algeria was looking bleaker by the minute. The fight resumed quite soon after, this time against de Gaulle himself, and in an increasingly violent way. I was underground at the time, and I had been wanted by the police since the Week of the Barricades in January 1960,[18] in which my Free Corps had participated. Afterwards, one plot came after another in an atmosphere of intense excitement.

DV: You bring to mind an earlier time, exhilarating and quite dangerous. The young man that I was believed he could change fate. It was also an adventure not to be missed. I had a vague feeling that what was offered to my generation would not present itself again. In those days, I recognised none as my master. The very history I lived and contemplated served as my master. I found stimulants and recipes in Lenin’s What is to be Done? [4] My childhood reading instilled within me a certain view of the world that was ultimately disappointed.

He believed that unlike its Christian successor, the Classical world had no problem with people ending their lives after careful consideration and in order to avoid an otherwise unbearable existence. Venner invokes the example of the Japanese author and admirer of Samurai culture, Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), who committed seppuku, in public view, as a social statement. Mishima, a Japanese traditionalist, was revolted by the triumph of Western liberalism and pacifism in his country and took his life to arouse others to combat the destruction of the traditional Japanese way of life.

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