Alexander Raynor reviews Identity: The Foundation of the City as Henri Levavasseur’s powerful argument that the survival of Western civilization depends on rekindling the ancestral unity of ethnos and polis.
It is a tragedy that any sort of defense of nationalism on ethnic grounds is immediately labelled as Nazism or racism. It is stultifying intellectual discourse.
As C.S. Lewis said, quoting the Greeks, “No man loves his city because it is great, but because it is his.” The love of nation is an extension of love of family. It is part of who we are and part of what gives meaning to our lives.
It is a tragedy that any sort of defense of nationalism on ethnic grounds is immediately labelled as Nazism or racism. It is stultifying intellectual discourse.
As C.S. Lewis said, quoting the Greeks, “No man loves his city because it is great, but because it is his.” The love of nation is an extension of love of family. It is part of who we are and part of what gives meaning to our lives.
I have ordered the book.