Recovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the West Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far right texts

Imperium Press, whose blog fosters a worldview it calls ‘folkishness’, has become an intellectual resource for the far right, but its works are widely available through mainstream sourcesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAt least one Australian-based online bookstore is reviewing works from a publisher that describes itself as the “the classics department of the dissident right”, including essay collections edited by an Australian white nationalist.Booktopia said on Wednesday it would remove several titles published by Imperium Press from its website “pending further review”. The publisher is part of an international ecosystem of publishers that sell repackaged public domain titles, often from the “western canon” such as Shakespeare, the Iliad and the counter-Enlightenment philosopher Joseph de Maistre, as well as explicitly reactionary right or pro-white works.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2024-01-14 14:00:30 UTC ]

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