Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockey (born September 18, 1917 in Manistee Township, Michigan ; † June 16, 1960 in San Francisco , California ) was a right-wing extremist American cultural philosopher, who was particularly famous for his Neo-Penglerian work Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (1948 ), which appeared under the pseudonym Ulick Varange . Also under this pseudonym he published The Enemy of Europe (1953).
Willis Carto, author of the introduction of the English-language original edition of Imperium , broken down the pseudonym as follows: Ulick is an Irish given name and means "reward of the mind", Varange brings the Nordic Varangians into play, the Viking prince Rurik in the 9th century to Russia and who within a very short time made up the ruling class there; thus the pseudonym symbolically encompasses a European area that extends from Galway in the west to the Urals in the east.
The classical philologist Revilo P. Oliver , from whose pen a large part of Carto's introduction comes, also pointed out the similarity to the Latin Ulixes , the Roman name for the Homeric hero Odysseus .
In Germany, Imperium did not appear until 1976 under the title Chaos or Imperium? The West between decline and a new beginning . Willis Carto's introduction is not included in the German edition. In addition, the translation was published under Yockey's real names.
The anti-Semitic brochure The Enemy of Europe , probably written by Yockey in the fall of 1953, was translated badly into German in a night and fog campaign; a large part of the translation was probably made by Yockey himself, as the translator was unreliable. The work had an edition of only 200 copies. The majority of these were later confiscated and destroyed by the German authorities.
Yockey worked closely with numerous contemporary representatives and organizations of American right-wing extremism. a. with George Sylvester Viereck and H. Keith Thompson .
Yockey died in 1960 from a lethal dose of 2 grams of cyanide while in custody on charges of passport forgery . His death was officially classified as a suicide ; a thesis that is controversial among its supporters.
Works
- Chaos or empire? The West between decline and a new beginning . Publications of the Institute for Post-War History, Vol. 8. ed. v. Herbert Grabert . trans. v. Ursula v. Gordon. Tübingen: Grabert-Verlag , 1976. ISBN 3-87847-033-9 .
literature
- Kevin Coogan: Dreamer of the Day. Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International . New York: Autonomedia, 1999. ISBN 1-57027-039-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Francis Parker Yockey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dietmar Gottfried: Empire. The Mysterious Life and Death of Francis Parker Yockey , Telepolis 10 July 2011.
swell
- ↑ a b Carto quoted from Revilo P. Oliver: The Enemy of Our Enemies: A Critique of Francis Parker Yockey's "The Enemy of Europe". York, South Carolina: Liberty Bell Publications, 1981. pp. 4 f., Footnote 5.
- ↑ Empire. The Mysterious Life and Death of Francis Parker Yockey
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yockey, Francis Parker |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Varange, Ulick (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cultural philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manistee Township , Michigan |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1960 |
| Place of death | San Francisco , California |