PAIDEIA Volume I: May 2023-September 2023 is now available in print at https://amazon.com/dp/B0CY8TF4R6 (Full list of contents below)
From the introduction: This is a collection of texts written and translated by sixteen young men for publication on paideia.substack.com between May 10th 2023 and September 21st 2023. I set out in the hopes of cultivating a community of taste and raising the standards of writing amongst ourselves and our followers generally. To what degree that’s been achieved I do not know. What I do know is that this volume contains the first English translation of works from several of the 20th century’s greatest poets and thinkers such as Gottfried Benn and Ernst Jünger. It contains a redirection for modern science away from its current form which amounts to little more than a harlot selling herself to the highest bidder. It contains original poetry once again adhering to the principles shown by those before us. Histories heretofore hidden from our eyes, fruitful meditations, crisp symbolisms. In my estimation these men have engaged with the tradition in a way very few have since the modernists, and to paraphrase Pound, have “drawn up leaf from the root.”
Thank you to @Ihiyotl__ for the cover illustration.
List of contents: Aesthetic Exemplarism -Psychedral Aesthetic Utilitarianism -Cherub B. Rah “As above, so below”: On Russian genius and national character -Kirill Novikov He is not here -Cal Crucis On Wrestling, Chivalry and Pedagogy -Mahavira Singh Repentance and Penitence -Evolist The Glory of Of -Jadrool Thinking and Poetizing -Vincent Vignettes from the history of natural philosophy -NangaParbat The poet’s relationship to illness -E.P. Groyp. The Cowboys and their Poetry: a on’ry proposition -Cherub B. Rah The Fanaticism Towards Transcendence -Gottfried Benn t. Unsinn Taygetos -Kostas Ouranis t. Konstantin Kanelleas Johann Georg Hamann -Pierre Klossowski t. Tim Author and Authorship -Ernst Jünger t. Vincent A Gottfried Benn Breviary -Gottfried Benn t. Vincent A selection of poems by Aleksander Blok and Velimir Khlebnikov -A. Blok, V. Khlebnikov t. Noam Hessler Selected Vandalic Latin Poems -Amator The Question of the Originality of Early Christian Art -F. Van der Meer t. Evolist The Poetry of Friedrich Georg Jünger -F.G. Jünger t. Vincent God’s lonely man -Mahavira Singh SPRING-SUMMER HAIKU -Burtuqaly The day of her birth -Axolotl The Boat Fisherman -Noam Hessler
Congratulations on publication of this selection of the original writings of young writers. Look forward to more pieces in the tradition you described in the commentary.