Alexander Jacob

Dr. Alexander Jacob is the author of Nobilitas: A Study of Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century, and Atman: A Reconstruction of the Solar Cosmology of the Indo-Europeans. His major editions of German conservative political thinkers include Edgar Julius Jung’s The Rule of the Inferiour, the anthology Europa: German Conservative Foreign Policy 1870–1940, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain’s Political Ideals."

Alexander Jacob is an Indian-born academic and author. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Ideas at Pennsylvania State University with an essay on Henry More's A Platonick Song of the Soul. He has also worked at York University and conducted research at the University of Toronto.

Life

"Europa: German Conservative Foreign Policy 1870–1940" (2001); Europa presents, to the modern reader, the foreign political thought of four major German conservatives from the crucial period between the Second Reich and the Second World War. The texts chosen reveal the spiritual and cultural motives, of German conservatives at the turn of the century, that inspired expansionist policies and the consistent opposition to the Jewish financial rule. The lack of German translations of these important texts so far has clearly been a disadvantage to the modern historian in his assessment of the philosophical significance of the Conservative, as well as of the National Socialist, foreign political ideology.

Jacob has published numerous translations and studies. Among other themes, he has written on Cambridge Platonism in works such as Henry More's Refutation of Spinoza (1991), the history of religion in Atman: A Reconstruction of the Solar Cosmology of the Indo-Europeans (2005) and political philosophy in Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century (2001). Furthermore he has translated works by many authors, including Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Edgar Julius Jung. He has recently republished his work on the subject of Idealisic philosophy and the unconscious via Arktos, Der Naturae Natura (2011), and completed translations of books by Alain de Benoist, Pierre Krebs and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg for Arktos.

Works

Books

• Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century, 2001
• Atman: A Reconstruction of the Solar Cosmology of the Indo-Europeans
• Europa: German Conservative Foreign Policy 1870–1940, 2001
• De Naturae Natura: A Study of Idealistic Conceptions of Nature and the Unconscious
• The Origins of Indo-European Religion, 2012
• Indo-European Mythology and Religion: Essays, 2019

Introductions to Other Authors' Works

• Introduction to Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Political Ideals
• Introduction to Edgar Julius Jung's The Rule of the Inferiour
• Introduction to Eugen Dühring on the Jews
• Introduction to Alfred Rosenberg's Political Essays
• Introductory Study to Henry More's A Platonick Song of the Soul
• Introduction to Henry More's The Immortality of the Soul
• Introduction to Henry More's Refutation of Spinoza
• Introduction and Notes to Henry More's Manual of Metaphysics

Other Translations

• Pierre Krebs's Fighting for the Essence
• Alain de Benoist's Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms
• Alain de Benoist's The Problem of Democracy

See also

• De Naturae Natura
• Nobilitas
• Europa (book)
• Atman (book)
• Spiritual Race
• Indo-Europeans

People

• Alfred Rosenberg
• Houston Stewart Chamberlain