Many people were fond of the late, great, outsider-artist-philosopher Jonathan Bowden. And why shouldn’t they be? Surely he was at least as sound as our good friend Thomas Francis.
Edward Dutton
Shaman of the Radical Right:
The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden
With a Foreword by Greg Johnson
Perth, W.A., Australia: Imperium Press, 2025When Edward Dutton published this investigatory biography of Jonathan Bowden a few weeks ago, he promoted it with an amusing little fillip on his Substack. At the start of a loose, impromptu podcast about his new book, Dutton gives us a vocal impersonation of Bowden himself—speaking to us from beyond the grave, as it were. This “Bowden” has just learned that someone’s published a book about him, and it all sounds like an excellent idea. He hectors us to go buy this new book, because it’s all about him.
Vocally the Dutton impersonation is not exactly like Bowden, to my ears anyway (register too high, voice too strangled-sounding), but it is funny, and does catch the cadence and improvisational panache of Bowden’s speeches. For example, there’s a wonderfully misplaced quote when he’s plugging the book, very Bowdenesque: “I think it was Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli— he was one o’ them—Benjamin Disraeli, he said, ‘If a book is worth reading it’s worth buying!’”
READ THE WHOLE GODDAMNED THING! HERE!
https://counter-currents.com/2025/03/artist-philosopher-shaman-liar/
Facebook Comments