Jonathan Bowden's Early Writing (1989–95)

This list is based on details gleaned from online catalogues (mainly Amazon’s Good Reads website, which seems even more comprehensive than Google Books) and from the catalogues of the six Legal Deposit Libraries of Ireland and the UK (the Bodleian in Oxford, the British Library in London, the Cambridge University Library, Trinity College Library in Dublin and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales). I have also examined the six-volume Collected Works at the British Library and the Cambridge University Library.

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's Lee (1991)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s Lee is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Janet Ingraham for Library Journal, 15 September 1991. I copied the text from Amazon and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture (1994)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Robert Jordan for Library Journal, 1 November 1994. I copied the text from the Barnes and Noble website and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's Fields of Asphodel (2007)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s Fields of Asphodel is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Jim Dwyer for Library Journal, 15 June 2007. I copied the text from the Barnes and Noble website and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's New Austerities (1994)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s New Austerities is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Harold Augenbraum for Library Journal, 1 May 1994. I copied the text from the Barnes and Noble website and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Robert Nye on Tito Perdue's Lee (1991)

[Robert Nye gives Tito Perdue’s Lee a bad review. An interesting exercise in missing the point. Nye notices the absence of plot and spends a lot of ink on it. But this does not seem to have reminded him to attend to the book’s other riches. From ‘Read between the Lines and Find a Full Stop,’ The Guardian (7 November 1991), p. 28. Excerpted here for enthusiasts and the bibliographically curious.]

Works of and on Tito Perdue

Novels

Lee, 1. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991; 2. Overlook Press, 2007; 3. Arktos, 2019. — Reviews: Kirkus Reviews (15 June 1991); Publishers Weekly (29 July 1991); Janet Ingraham, Library Journal (15 September 1991); Robert Nye, The Guardian (7 November 1991); Anne Whitehouse, New York Times (24 November 1991); Antoine Wilson, Los Angeles Times (15 July 2007); bourbonapocalypse.com (10 May 2011); Jef Costello, Counter-Currents (22 October 2013); Joakim Andersen, Motpol (21 September 2019). — See also Bill Kauffman, Bye Bye Miss American Empire (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 2010), p. 188.

The New Austerities, 1. Peachtree Press, 1994; 2. Standard American, 2023. — Reviews: Harold Augenbraum, Library Journal (1 May 1994); Publishers Weekly (1 August 1994); Dick Roraback, Los Angeles Times (15 January 1995); Thomas Fleming, Chronicles (December 1996).

Texts on Nietzsche's Politics

Some texts I have enjoyed, found useful, or been authoritatively recommended. Indefinitely under construction. Inevitably uncomprehensive. I will be augmenting this list for the foreseeable future as I read further into this interesting topic, and would be pleased to hear any suggestions. Where possible, I link straight to the text; where not, to the publisher.

Updated 21 June 2023.

 

Books

Benoist, Alain de, Nietzsche: Morale et “Grande Politique” (Paris: GRECE, 1973). —

Brandes, Georg, Friedrich Nietzsche (London: Heinemann, 1914). — Brandes was Nietzsche’s contemporary, and among the first, or perhaps the very first, to lecture on Nietzsche in an academic setting. His formula for Nietzsche’s politics, “aristocratic radicalism,” was endorsed by Nietzsche himself. Includes some correspondence between author and subject.

An English Moralist: “Tom Brown of Facetious Memory”

Tom Brown (1662–1704) is interesting for all sorts of reasons. “T*m Br*wn of facetious memory,” as Addison called him in The Spectator, 567 (14 July 1717), is almost exclusively remembered for his imitation of Martial, 1.13; but I like to remember him for his maxims (or “Laconics,” as he called them).

Is he the earliest conscious English imitator of La Rochefoucauld? He has certainly left us an extensive and interesting body of “short amusements” and “maxims of state and conversation,” which, though, of course, of a lower quality than La Rochefoucauld’s, are by no means of low quality. And yet they have hardly been noticed.

Here follows a list gathering what I have found of his maxims so far, and which I will augment if I find more.

R. L. Nettleship’s Uncollected Works

Excepting translations from German, letters to Thring and Bosanquet published in volumes of selected letters of those men, and edited volumes of Green’s works, the publications of Richard Lewis Nettleship not included in the two-volume Remains are, I think, as follows.

“An Italian Study of Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’” Macmillan’s Magazine XXXIX (November 1878–April 1879), pp. 23–31.

“The Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato,” in Evelyn Abbott (ed.), Hellenica (London: Rivington’s, 1880), pp. 67–180. Reissued as The Theory of Education in Plato’s Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935).

“Professor T. H. Green: In Memoriam,” The Contemporary Review XLI (January–June 1882), pp. 857–77.

Introductory memoir in Works of Thomas Hill Green vol. 3 (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1888), pp. xi–clxi.

Infinite cheers to archive.org for the facsimiles! If there’s anything I’ve left out, please do say.

Evola and Italian Philosophy, 1925–49: Three Biographical and Bibliographical Essays

The following essays all appeared in Vouloir 119–121 (1996), the supplement to the revue Orientations, edited by Robert Steuckers. They centre on Julius Evola’s relations with the two major figures of Italian philosophy in the interwar period.

In “Evola, ultime tabou?” (pp. 1–3), Gianfranco de Turris asks if the rehabilitation enjoyed by such philosophers as Giovanni Gentile, previously denounced as Fascist, might be afforded to Evola. He briefly sketches the case in his favour: unlike the marginal crank of post-War imagination, Evola seems to have maintained relations with such figures of the first rank as Gentile and Benedetto Croce. In “Gentile/Evola: une liaison ami/ennemi…” (pp. 3–5) Stefano Arcella examines Evola’s fertile collaboration with Gentile and Ugo Spirito on the Enciclopedia Italiana. And in “Quand Benedetto Croce ‘sponsorisait’ Evola” (pp. 5–7) Alessandro Barbera investigates the Croce connection, looking in some detail at the correspondence between Evola, Croce, and the publisher Laterza.

French originals:

1—http://www.archiveseroe.eu/evola-a48672110

2—http://www.archiveseroe.eu/gentile-a126198308

3—http://www.archiveseroe.eu/croce-a126196870

PDF of this translation:

https://www.academia.edu/42191919/Evola_and_Italian_Philosophy_1925-49_Three_Biographical_and_Bibliographical_Essays