Tag: Terror

โ€œAt the wall of timeโ€: the question of history and the crisis of the modern world

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Ernst Jรผnger's work on cyclical time, published 60 years ago, marks the apex of what was called the "culture of the crisis", a current of thought focused on becoming aware of the drama of History and Historicism and on the image of time as an impetuous flow that overwhelms everything: intuitions that, before Jรผnger, were brought to the surface by Oswald Spengler, Renรฉ Guรฉnon, Julius Evola and Mircea Eliade.

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Rudyard Kipling's India between folklore, terror and wonder

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In the "Anglo-Indian Tales of Mystery and Horror", Kipling places himself in the position of Western observer and narrator of an 'other' and atavistic culture such as the Indian one, which if necessaryย reveals itself to his eyesย as a mirror of ours.

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