Out now: Jonathan Bowden - Thoughts & Perspectives
BOWDEN: THOUGHTS & PERSPECTIVES is now available to pre-order. The book is 160 pages in length and costs just 24 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. The PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Cover: Francisco Albanese Pastene.
WHEN, in March 2012, news of Jonathan Bowden's death first reverberated around the world, his many friends and colleagues were deeply shocked and saddened at the passing of this great English intellectual. Born in 1962, Jonathan was the author of more than thirty books on a variety of philosophical and cultural subjects and a talented artist who produced hundreds of nightmarish caricatures, many of which adorn the front of his novels. He also played the leading role in two remarkable avant-garde films, Venus Flytrap (2005) and Grand Guignol (2009), each directed by Italian film-maker Andrea Lioy.
His main success, however, came from the time spent as Chairman of the New Right and he spoke to the group on no less than thirty-three occasions over the space of seven years. He spoke, without notes, on the horrors of communism and totalitarian leftism, the systematic decline of Western art, and about Heidegger, Nietzsche, Céline, Riefenstahl, Mishima, Stirner, Junger, Pound, D'Annunzio, Yeats and many other figures from the philosophical, revolutionary and traditionalist milieu.
This book, which contains 22 chapters and includes many of Jonathan's magazine articles, is designed to ensure that his name is remembered for many years to come. Other contributors include Troy Southgate (Editor), K.R. Bolton, Lady Michele Renouf, Peter Rushton, Norman Lowell, Wulf Ingessunu, Alex Kurtagic, and John Howells.