High Irrationalism and Far Right Politics
Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism & Nazi Survival (1992) Joscelyn Godwin The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann & the Origins of Modern Irrationalism (1993) Isaiah Berlin Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (2004) Mark Sedgwick Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen (2008) Gary Lachman Although published by Adventures Unlimited which tends not to be, shall we say, conventional in its authors (who cover conspiracy, lost worlds, free energy and what-have-you), Arktos is a serious and interesting account of polar mythology in popular culture, in the history of science and in esoteric lore. Joscelyn Goodwin provides an intelligent and often wry overview that remains well within scholarly standards. It is a valuable addition to that shelf in the library that is dominated by the work of Goodrick Clark (of whom more in a later review) and it is a useful guide to