Abstract

A recent issue of the Swedish journal Res Publica focuses on the meaning and impact of the German “Conservative Revolution” in Scandinavia. Edited by Göran Dahl and Carl-Göran Heidegren, it contains translations from Ernst Junger's Der Arbeiter; analyses of the “Conservative Revolution” by Eric Bolle, Louis Dupeux and Ellen Kennedy, as well as excerpts from Carl Schmitt's Politische Theologie, Land und Meer and Glossarium.

Taking Armin Mohler's standard text on the German “Conservative Revolution” as their point of departure, Dahl's and Heidegren's introductory essay, “The Magic Zero Hour,” provides an interesting overview of the subject. Mohler identified three main ideological lines within revolutionary conservatism: 1) the folkish; 2) the young conservative; and 3) the national revolutionary. The folkish current was anti-intellectual and irrational.