Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity NY University Press Edition

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Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists

More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety about immigration, globalization and the refugee crisis, giving rise to new waves of nationalism and surges of white supremacism. A curious mixture of Aristocratic paganism, anti-Semitic demonology, Eastern philosophies and the occult is influencing populist antigovernment sentiment and helping to exploit the widespread fear that invisible elites are shaping world events.

Black Sun examines this neofascist ideology, showing how hate groups, militias and conspiracy cults gain influence. Based on interviews and extensive research into underground groups, the book documents new Nazi and fascist sects that have sprung up since the 1970s and examines the mentality and motivation of these far-right extremists. The result is a detailed, grounded portrait of the mythical and devotional aspects of Hitler cults among Aryan mystics, racist skinheads and Nazi satanists, and disciples of heavy metal music and occult literature.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke offers a unique perspective on far right neo-Nazism viewing it as a new form of Western religious heresy. He paints a frightening picture of a religion with its own relics, rituals, prophecies and an international sectarian following that could, under the proper conditions, gain political power and attempt to realize its dangerous millenarian fantasies.

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"Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has done pioneering work in the field of the occult roots of Nazism. In the present volume he performs the same invaluable service with regard to the ideological fantasies of post war neofascism." -- Walter Laqueur

"Presents a troubling picture of the mindset of the modern Far Right." ― Library Journal

"Anyone who remembers the devastation wrought by Nazi fanaticism can only be astonished and dismayed by this book. Who could have foreseen that half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich the Jews would once again be perceived as a demonic power intent on destroying the & Aryan race, or that Hitler would be imagined as a divine being who is about to return to earth to complete the Holocaust? For the matter, who could have foreseen that the preposterous & pagan cult developed by Heinrich Himmler would ever be revived? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke shows not only that these things have indeed happened but how and why they have happened. He also suggests what dangers they may portend. Black Sun is both an enthralling and a deeply disturbing work. It deserves the most serious attention and a wide readership." -- Norman Cohn,author of The Pursuit of the Millennium and Warrant for Genocide

"[An] important work." ― Philadelphia Inquirer

"Excellent book provides a lucid and often chilling guide." ― Journal of European Studies

About the Author

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke is the author of several books on ideology and the Western esoteric tradition, including Hitler’s Priestess and Occult Roots of Nazism, which has remained in print since its publication in 1985 and has been translated into eight languages.

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Publisher : NYU Press; NY University Press edition (July 1, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 371 pages
ISBN-10 : 0814731554
ISBN-13 : 978-0814731550
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.99 x 9 inches

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Ellen Hinlicky

Invaluable introduction

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2016

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While some of the reviewers have questioned whether Goodrick-Clarke used original research in this book, its broad review of the topic is so helpful that it inspires one to pursue in greater detail what one finds most interesting. This is an invaluable introduction to far-right or alt-right or whatever label you choose; his summary of Julius Evola is especially helpful. This book is more timely than ever, and the writing is very good. Check out also "Hitler's Priestess," his biography of Savitri Devi; while he is critical of her, the information is fascinating, and you can draw your own conclusions about her thought.

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Sean A. Heaney

The Best Book I Have Read On The Subject, Bar None!

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2019

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Like His Excellent First Volume Of The Occult Roots Of Nazi Germany, This Second Volume Covers Post War Aryan Identity Movements Post WWII Until 9/11. These White Supremacist Knot Heads Don't Realize, Or Are Too Stupid To Understand Their Involvement w/Militant Islam, From The Muslim SS Unit During WWII, Through The "Exodus" Of Ex-Nazis To The Arab Countries Where They Could Continue The Oppression Of The Jews. It Is Like Insanity Passed Down Through The Generations. Put THAT In Your "Pure Blood " Darwinism. Every Time I See, "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion," I Reach For My Revolver. "MEIN KAMPF" Has Been a Bestseller In Arab Countries Since WWII. Untermenschen Indeed!

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New Age of Barbarism

A Disappointing Look At NeoNazism.

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2002

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In this book, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke tries to give an account of the continuation of much of the Nazi philosophy after the demise of the Third Reich. However, after his previous work _The Occult Roots of Nazism_ this book is surely a large disappointment. The book presents chapters on the American NeoNazis (especially Rockwell), British Nazis (including Colin Jordan and "Combat 18"), Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey and James Madole, Savitri Devi, a collection of "mysterious" and occult phenomena surrounding the Third Reich, Wilhelm Landig, UFOs and Antarctic underground bases, Miguel Serrano, black metal, Nazi Satanism, Christian Identity, Nordic paganism, and conspiracy beliefs regarding the New World Order. Unfortunately, there is very little holding this book together and it is rather poorly written. Although the book is entertaining, some of the weirdest things you are likely to read about, it fails to achieve any sort of conclusion at all and resorts to gratuitous references to terrorism (the events of September 11, unconnected with Nazism at all).
For a much better account of NeoNazi and far right beliefs read either: _Arktos_ by Joscelyn Godwin or _Dreamer of the Day_ by Kevin Coogan.

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William Michael Brown

fascinating

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2014

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A huge survey of a current of millenarian reactionary thought that goes back far earlier than the Nazis, and survives today on both the right and the left.

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Essential, but Ultimately Confounding

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2016

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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's book is a dense, fact-filled examination of the roots of all the variations of National Socialism, white supremacy and all that goes with it. Sometimes the amount of information is overwhelming, but one can't say that Goodrick-Clarke didn't do his homework. What is puzzling about the book, however, is its conclusion.

Goodrick-Clarke seems to present the information in an unbiased form throughout the book. A basic "here is what this group believes and why" type of approach that serves it well, but when one reads the conclusion it almost seems like the author is an apologist for these groups. He seems to state he understands that with the "liberal" course the country is going on that this can be the only outcome. It doesn't throw what he wrote before into a suspect light, as it was just factual and presented without bias, but it makes one wonder why it wasn't biased. He doesn't paint the various people and groups in good light, and the chapter before the book's conclusion paints some of these folks as downright crazy, so why did he write this conclusion?

Goodrick-Clarke has passed away, so we will never know, but don't dismiss the book because of that. Now more than ever, this kind of information and knowledge is necessary to understand the world around us.

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Tenma13

repetitive

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2018

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Interesting but very very repetitive.

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Great Book if you interested in Nazi Mytholgy

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2010

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This book shows some of the Nazi cults that have sprung up since WW 2 ended.Most of the European ones center around Odin/Wotan myths with occult theroies from the late 1850s-1900 throw in.Nazi UFO stories and tales of hidden bases all over the world are disscussed.Heavy metal music and black metal bands from Sweden,Norway and England are also looked into as the spreading of Neo-Nazi ideaology.American Nazi groups are also looked into and most of them are Christian based (Christian Identiny) and this is were it gets scary.Most of them believe the Aryan race are the decendents of Jesus and is their job to secure the destiny of a Aryan American.It is scary because if you look at a group like the Mormons you will see alot of close associatons of thought and belief.I could never have believed that American could descend into RAHOWA but with the rise of the Tea Party and people like Glenn Beck it looks like the Fourth Reich could rise in America.

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john zaleta

Nazis hidden

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2018

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Good information on Nazi sub groups

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Mark Brown

Occult-völkisch mysticism - gurus, violence & nonsense

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2019

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The Kindle version of this is astonishingly good value for this is a long, long, book. Dense & sometimes hard to read, it presents a dizzying array of characters & details; the people & organisations Goodrick-Clarke describes are repellent, vile, violent & demented. This takes a strong stomach. The author delivers new insight into a dark & horrifying world. The delivery is scholarly, smart, intellectual and well-written with intelligent analysis of the influences behind volkisch Nazi tradition and how these cultural echoes are still experienced today. You will learn (amongst a lot of other things!) that contemporary neo-Nazis have become “de-coupled” from the sordid details of German wartime atrocities. The resulting repackaging yields a new Fascism combining “pop mythology, Hinduism, and extra-terrestrial Aryan gods” with “a medley of myths about SS heroes, fabulous cities and a magical Aryan millennium.”

Despite the ugly subject matter the Goodrick-Clarke writes that “a number of factors in Western politics have worked to reintroduce race as a legitimate category of group identification”. Legitimate?! He describes the broadening ethnic mix in the UK as being “a profound issue”. Such appalling writing which can only contribute to a toxic narrative where benign cultural change is re-packaged as a “challenge”. This leads to phrases like “ethnic festivals overwhelm embattled white residents...”, “Asian-language newspapers, cinemas and shops reflect the existence of large unassimilated groups…” and “..many local authorities pander to blacks with respect to employment…”. These observations are driven by a racist perception of what is “normal”. The author presents “Mosques and Hindu temples replac[ing] old pubs and labor clubs…” in purely a pejorative sense. He writes that “the media and mass entertainment beam a constant barrage of positive multiracial images onto the British populace” as if that is some kind of propaganda rather than the normal state of human interaction.

So, sadly, the author goes too far in normalising xenophobia & white supremacy as the natural order. The end of white privilege is not a legitimate cause for concern. The world is globalised & increasingly homogenised. If you feel poorer it is because the world outside your gate is poor. Maintaining your lifestyle at their expense is no longer an option. Thankfully given neo-Nazis gender and age it seems most still live with their Mum. Their plan for world domination will end when they are kicked out of the spare bedroom. The Fourth Reich they are not.

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Kai Perrigno

Nazi Esoterica Scholar: Affirmative Action is Racist to White People

Reviewed in Australia on December 11, 2020

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You ever read 300 pages of exhaustive, mind-numbing descriptions of esoteric Nazi cults and their beliefs only to get to the concluding chapter and find out the author doesn’t believe in institutional racism? Lmao kill me

Captain Chaos!

88.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2016

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The Black Sun. The Anti-Sun, that shines in the deepest purple, that when, the Ayran People retake their rightful place, shall outshine all the stars in the Galaxy.

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