The Hermetic Circle: Germanic Influences and Appropriations in Miguel Serrano’s Chilean Esoteric Hitlerism

Abstract

Miguel Serrano has become a key ideologue for the contemporary far-right circles of the global north, where his ideas and philosophy of Esoteric Hitlerism coalesce and form part of the zeitgeist that surrounds the Northern Hemisphere’s swing toward a conspiracist, ethno-nationalist right. Serrano’s career as a writer begins in the realm of fiction. It is in his early literary practice where he first combines and mobilises Germanic literary, ideological and philosophical influences, applying them to South American landscapes and themes, including Hesse’s eastern-influenced bildungsroman, National Socialist, Ariosophist and Romantic anti-modern discourses, specifically Jung’s theories of mytho..