THE Conservative Revolution first rose to the fore during the German Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933, the period marking the end of the First World War and the final consolidation of Nazi totalitarianism. Although this phenomenon is usually associated with conservative and reactionary elements, many of whom were fiercely nationalistic, there were many interactions and convergences with Anarchist and Socialist elements that were also opposed to the twin evils of capitalism and Marxism. The twenty-two chapters in this remarkable new volume explore the political, cultural and militaristic aspects of the Conservative Revolution in both Germany and elsewhere. It is crucial for understanding both how and why principled activists and fighters on all sides were divided by those who wish to cling onto power. Needless to say, it is not too dissimilar to the situation we find ourselves in today.

Chapters include Was There a Conservative Revolution in Spain? Ortega y Gasset and the Fighting Generations; Paul Gérardy and Belgian Symbolism; And Ernst Jünger Discovered that Technology Enslaved Man; Franziska Zu Reventlow: Bohemia, Scandals and the Conservative Revolution; The Theory of "Nomos" in Carl Schmitt: Geopolitics as a Bulwark Against Nihilism; Long Live Secret Germany!; Pagan Idols in Ludwig Klages; Schwabing's Munich Bavaria: The Cradle of the German Conservative Revolution; Spengler and Italy; Munich Bavaria from Schwabing to Ticino; Dominique Venner on Ernst Jünger and the Conservative Revolution (Interview Conducted by Pauline Lecomte); Back to Civvie Street: Ernst Röhm's Friendship with Adolf Hitler in Ruins; The Ascetics of War in the Thought of Giovanni Gentile and Carl Schmitt; Ernst Jünger: Contemplator in Uniform and Master of Freedom; Werner Sombart: Why There is no Socialism in the United States; Count Keyserling's School of Wisdom: A Lesson in Cultural Influence; Hoffman and Jünger: The Perturbing Nature of Technology; The Fate of Beppo Römer: From the Free Corps to the German Communist Party; The Dead Prussian: Commemorating the Birth of Ernst von Salomon; The Mystery of Language According to Ernst Jünger; Munich or Athens on the Isar: City of Culture and Matrix of Conservative-Revolutionary Ideas; and Ernst Röhm in South America: Bolivia and Beyond.

The contributors are Troy Southgate, Dominique Venner, Robert Steuckers, Luca Leonello Rimbotti, Lionel Baland, Alessio Mulas, Flaminia Incecchi, Jesús Sebastián-Lorente, Carlo Galli, Ugo Gaudino, Markus Klein, Holger Szymanski, Marco Zonetti, Manuel Fernández Espinosa, Carlo Gambescia and the Augusto Blog.