Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970) appreciation post“The fascist aesthetic, embodied in the fascist m
Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970) appreciation post“The fascist aesthetic, embodied in the fascist moment, offered a cure to a world emptied of its beauty by the depredations of modernity and by the cultural vacuum left by the restrictions and demands of the Japanese state. It also assuaged the sting of the prevailing sense of cultural belatedness vis-à-vis the West. If that culture in which Japanese intellectuals were saturated valued creative originality, and if Japanese artists could not hope to match that originality, then it made sense to develop an aesthetics of imitation to strike a blow for the native tradition.” – The Aesthetics of Japanese FascismHe fells like Thomas Mann, The Bushido Code, Nietzsche and Mussolini together. Best shit I read since Proust. -- source link
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