What is a Rune? & Other Essays

What is a Rune? & Other Essays

In these nine remarkable essays, Collin Cleary expands upon the ideas of his path-breaking book Summoning the Gods and ventures into entirely new territory:

â€œWhat is a Rune?â€ explores the nature of mytho-poetic thought and the problem of recovering the mysteries of runa.
â€œThe Fourfoldâ€ uses Martin Heideggerâ€™s phenomenology of â€œdwellingâ€ as a means of approaching our ancestorsâ€™ way of being in the world.
â€œThe Ninefoldâ€ offers a philosophical interpretation of the nine worlds of Germanic myth.
â€œThe Gifts of Odin and his Brothersâ€ unveils the inner meaning of the account of human origins found in the Eddas.
â€œThe Stones Cry Outâ€ advances the revolutionary thesis that â€œopenness to Beingâ€ explains the sudden appearance of art in Europe 40,000 years ago.
Clearyâ€™s controversial essay â€œÃsatrÃº and the Politicalâ€ argues that ÃsatrÃº is inseparable from White Nationalism.
â€œAre We Free?â€ skewers the false conception of freedom to which Westerners are in thrall.
â€œHeidegger: An Introduction for Anti-Modernistsâ€ offers readers the best English-language introduction to the most important philosopher of the last century.
â€œThe Prisoner and Ibsenâ€™s Brandâ€ is a sequel to Clearyâ€™s popular essay on The Prisoner from Summoning the Gods, exploring this enigmatic television series in the light of Henrik Ibsenâ€™s classic play about implacable moralism.
Contents

Introduction by Greg Johnson: The Philosophy of Collin Cleary

Authorâ€™s Preface

1. What is a Rune?
2. The Fourfold
3. The Ninefold
4. The Gifts of Odin & His Brothers
5. The Stones Cry Out: Cave Art & the Origin
of the Human Spirit
6. ÃsatrÃº & the Political
7. Are We Free?
8. Heidegger: An Introduction for Anti-Modernists
9. â€œAll or Nothingâ€: The Prisoner & Ibsenâ€™s Brand

Praise for Collin Cleary

â€œThe writings of Collin Cleary are an excellent example of the way in which old European paganism continues to question our contemporaries in a thought-provoking way. Written with elegance, his work abounds in original points of view.â€

â€”Alain de Benoist, author of On Being a Pagan

â€œIn What is a Rune? and Other Essays, Collin Cleary delves headlong into the world of Mystery in a way that brings clarity and light. An inspired mind linked to the vehicle of rational thought and profound memory for the mythic past leads the reader to deep insight. Cleary has done his homework on all levels, and with this book gives us a port of entry into a fascinating world of ideas.â€

â€”Edred Thorsson, author of Runelore

â€œWith his second book, What is a Rune?, Collin Cleary makes another powerful contribution to the intellectual foundations of modern Heathenry. Cleary approaches a wide range of topics, from the theological to the political, through his well-developed and cogently argued Heideggerian brand of Radical Traditionalism. Given the depth of Clearyâ€™s penetrating analysis of so many topics relevant to modern Heathenry, What is a Rune? belongs in the library of every thinking Heathen.â€

â€”Christopher Plaisance, editor of The Journal of Contemporary Heathen Thought

Collin Cleary, Ph.D. is an independent scholar living in Sandpoint, Idaho. He is the author of Summoning the Gods: Essays on Paganism in a God-Forsaken World (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2011). Cleary is one of the founders of TYR: Myth-Culture-Tradition, the first volume of which he co-edited. His essays have appeared in TYR, RÃ»na, and at Counter-Currents/North American New Right. A Master in the Rune-Gild, his work has been translated into Czech, Danish, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish.

Country	USA
Author	Collin Cleary
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781935965817
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Counter-Currents Publishing
Manufacturer	Counter-Currents Publishing
NumberOfPages	260
PublicationDate	2015-04-06
Publisher	Counter-Currents Publishing
ReleaseDate	2015-04-06
Studio	Counter-Currents Publishing

What is a Rune? & Other Essays

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