Extremists

<p><em>Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics</em> collects transcripts of nine of Jonathan Bowden’s most compelling orations: on Thomas Carlyle Gabriele D’Annunzio Charles Maurras Martin Heidegger Julius Evola Savitri Devi Yukio Mishima and Maurice Cowling as well as his speech “Vanguardism: Hope for the Future.” These speeches do not just explore the lives and thoughts of creative and exemplary individuals they also illustrate three cardinal principles that Bowden repeatedly emphasized: First political change depends upon metapolitical conditions. Second cultural and political innovations take place on the extremes. Third metapolitical extremists must think of themselves as vanguardists who lead the public mind to truth not cater to illusions and folly.</p>