Description
By Askr Svarte (Evgeny Nechkasov)
Translated by Jafe Arnold
339 pages / Released October 2024 / Available in hardcover, paperback, ebook.
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In the beginning was the word: Mythos. In the unfathomable depths of language and at the dizzying heights of philosophy and theology, man is Homo Mythicus, the being who can hear and tell the unfolding tale of Heaven, Earth, Divinities, Mortals, and Things. Alas, in the dark night of the modern world factory, the echoes of the ancient myths have fallen silent, but lone voices might still dare to ask the question, and lone ears might still attune themselves to hearken: will Another Myth resound for a new beginning?
Askr Svarte’s Towards Another Myth: A Tale of Heidegger and Traditionalism is a daring exploration of the thickets and abysses of the myth of Being that our world, our history, and we ourselves are. In the ancient revelations of India, Greece, and Germania, in the books of Western philosophy and in the lifeworld of South American tribes, between the lines and fates of modern European poetry, and in the wake of Heidegger and Traditionalist thought, Askr Svarte traces a captivating panorama of the mythopoetic dimension and invites us to ready ourselves for myth anew. Rather than reconstructing the past, Towards Another Myth invites us to rediscover the uncanny mystery of the myth calling to us from within, awaiting its — our — “new” beginning.
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Table of Contents
I. Branching Out
A Fork in the Road
Mythos and Poiesis
The Goddess Speech
Odin’s Sacrifice
We, Nothing
Tradition as Language
The Metaphysics of the Mask
II. Where No Word Is
Prolegomena
Das Wort
III. The Eschatology of Language
The End of Speech – The End of the World
Sacrifice, Chatter, Caesura
Mathematics
Towards Another Myth
IV. Heidegger and Traditionalism
Heidegger and Traditionalism
A Preliminary Exposition
Metaphysics and Being
Dasein
The Holy
Theology
The Fourfold
The Last God
The Future Ones
Another Beginning
The Horizons of the Juncture
Selected Bibliography
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Askr Svarte (Evgeny Nechkasov) is a Russian Traditionalist philosopher, pagan activist, and the founding head of the Svarte Aske community. Descended from Bessarabian Germans exiled to Siberia in the early 20th century, since 2009 he has been a practicing pagan in the Germanic-Scandinavian tradition and an active voice in the rebirth of paganism in Russia and Europe. Nechkasov is the founding editor of the journals Warha and Alföðr, as well as a member of the editorial board of Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions. He is the author of numerous works published in Russian and English, such as Polemos: The Dawn of Pagan Traditionalism, Polemos II: Pagan Perspectives, Tradition and Future Shock: Visions of a Future that Isn’t Ours, and What the Gods have Left: The Askr Svarte Notebooks. He lives in Novosibirsk, Russia.
