About the Author

In the first decades of the twentieth century, Anthony Mario Ludovici (1882-1971) was one of Britain's most celebrated intellectuals. One of the first and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exponent of Nietzsche's thought, Ludovici was also an original philosopher in his own right. In nearly 40 books, including eight novels, and dozens of shorter works, Ludovici set forth his views on metaphysics, religion, ethics, politics, economics, the sexes, health, eugenics, art, modern culture and current events with a clarity, wit and fearless honesty that made him famous. Ludovici was a passionate, principled defender of aristocracy and conservatism and a fierce, uncompromising critic of egalitarianism in all its manifestations: Christianity, liberalism, Marxism, socialism, feminism, multiculturalism, crass commercialism, a debased popular culture, and the denial of innate and unalterable biological differences between individuals, the sexes and the races. John V. Day was born in 1961 and educated at the University of Edinburgh and Queen's University of Belfast, where he received a doctorate in prehistory. He is the author of the highly praised book Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence (Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2001) and a number of articles. He is the editor of The Lost Philosopher: The Best of Anthony M. Ludovici (Berkeley, Cal.: Educational Translation and Scholarship Foundation, 2003) and the creator of an online Ludovici archive, www.anthonymludovici.com, that makes available many works by and about Ludovici.