Mythopoetic Reading List

This is a reading list for anti-modern and mythological thinking. The foundation texts are extremely helpful, although it is best to read a mix of what is compelling and what is supplementary, so you can read a few of these early on if you are drawn to them.

• Theogony by Hesiod

• The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset

• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings by Johann Gottfried Herder

• The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

• The Failure of Technology by Friedrich Georg Jünger

• Pindar Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin

• The Worker by Ernst Jünger

• Exegeses by Léon Bloy

• Aesthetica in Nuce by Johann Georg Hamann

• Ex Captivitate Salus by Carl Schmitt

• Bacchae by Euripides

• Carmina Burana