Opinion
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Selenia De Felice: Mishima was a “warrior of life,” intoxicated by the allure of a glorious ancient death
Although many of Yukio Mishima’s works have been translated into Turkish, his thoughts on politics and culture are still not sufficiently known in our country. Mishima was an important figure that kept coming up…
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Roland Clark: Iron Guard was distinguished by its intensive propaganda in rural areas and its reliance on Orthodox tradition
The profound social and political transformations Romania underwent in the aftermath of World War I provided a favourable backdrop for the rise of the Iron Guard movement led by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Famous thinkers…
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Rachel Harris: My father left Hay-on-Wye because the bookstore culture changed
The small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye has become one of the world’s most famous book centres thanks to the extraordinary vision of Richard Booth. Booth started by opening a bookshop in the building he…
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Roger Griffin: New battle-fronts: the global conflict between autocracy and democracy and between liberal and illiberal democracy
Roger Griffin is one of the world’s leading experts on fascism. His book The Nature of Fascism has been translated into Turkish. We had an interview with him on fascism, conservative revolutionism and Ernst…
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Orazio Maria Gnerre: It is the question of technology that makes Heidegger a conservative revolutionary
I got to know Orazio Maria Gnerre through “Materiali. Reinterpretare la Rivoluzione conservatrice’ . He is a prolific young academic who continues his work at the University of Perugia. His other works are also…
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Gianluca Giannini: Carl Schmitt was genuinely a conservative revolutionary
Gianluca Giannini’s article in Ripensare Carl Schmitt tra i materiali della Rivoluzione Conservatrice, Materiali di O.M. Gnerre caught my attention in this context. Carl Schmitt and his ideas are still being debated today. This…
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Ahmed Fatih Andı: Spanish Traditionalism believed that Spain was not ‘a nation’ but a ‘nation of nations’ (nación de naciones)
We talked about Spanish traditionalism with Ahmed Fatih Andı. Andı’s book, The Construction of a World War in Turkey (Analysing the Ottoman-Spanish Struggle in the 16th Century ) , which I follow his cinema…
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Martin Salisbury: The best illustration rather than duplicating visually what the words are saying, will find something slightly different to say
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the production of children’s books worldwide, especially in Turkey. Children’s books have become not only a literary genre but also a serious industry. Many…
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Ömer Fikret Oyal: Everything we are debating—or should be debating—in the 21st century arises in Jünger’s works
We had a conversation with Ömer Fikret Oyal, one of the most prominent living figures in contemporary Turkish literature, about Ernst Jünger. For anyone looking to read something in Turkish on Jünger, there are…
