Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Description

Written without notes in Ireland, and fi rst published pseudonymously in 1948, Imperium is Francis Parker Yockey s masterpiece. It is a critique of 19th-century rationalism and materialism, synthesising Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt, and Klaus Haushofer s geopolitics. In particular, it rethinks the themes of Spengler s The Decline of the West in an effort to account for the United States then recent involvement in World War II and for the task bequeathed to Europe s political soldiers in the struggle to unite the Continent-heroically, rather than economically-in the realisation of the destiny implied in European High Culture. Yockey s radical attack on liberal thought, especially that embodied by Americanism (distinct from America or Americans), condemned his work to obscurity, its appeal limited to the post-war fascist underground. Yet, Imperium transcents both the immediate post-war situation and its initial readership: it opened pathways to a deconstruction of liberalism, and introduced the concept of cultural vitalism- the organic conceptualisation of culture, with all that attends to it. These contributions are even more relevant now than in their day, and provide us with a deeper understanding of, as well as tools to deal with, the situation in the West in current century. It is with this in mind that the present, 900-page, fully-annotated edition is offered, complete with a major foreword by Dr. Kerry Bolton, Julius Evola s review as an afterword (in a fresh new translation), a comprehensive index, a chronology of Yockey s life, and an appendix, revealing, for the first time, much previously unknown information about the author s genealogical background.