User:KronosAlight

I'm an English Wikipedian. I was educated at an independent school in England and went on to gain a master's degree in jurisprudence and philosophy, graduating with distinction. I speak passable German due to family relatives on the continent.

I'm a practicing Roman Catholic and would say my politics are broadly in line with postliberal social democracy. Some of my favourite writers and thinkers include Michel Houellebecq, Christopher Lasch, Ivan Turgenev, Sigmund Freud, G. K. Chesterton, John Gray, Martin Heidegger, Paul Tillich, René Girard, Patrick J. Deneen, John D. Caputo, and Yoram Hazony.

My historical interests are quite broad, but I'm particularly interested in Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic Era, its parallels in the early Roman Empire and the rule of Caesar Augustus, the early history and origins of the Anglo-Saxon and English people, and heterodox approaches to history such as those of Oswald Spengler, Peter Turchin, and social cycle theory more broadly.

Favourite quotes:
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."

– Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism.

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

– G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World.

"One can say the West loved literature and the arts, but probably nothing counted more in its history than the need for rational certainty. To this need, the West sacrificed everything: its religion, its happiness, its hopes, and, when all is said and done, its existence."

– Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles.

"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."

– Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons.