Jack Donovan

For the Australian rules footballer, see Jack Donovan (footballer).

Jack Donovan
Born	(1974-10-23) October 23, 1974
Residence	Portland, Oregon
Other names	Jack Malebranche
Occupation	Author
Website	Official website

Jack Donovan is an American author known for his writing on masculinity, and for his criticisms of feminism and gay culture.

Donovan has contributed numerous article to Counter-Currents. He is perhaps best known as the author of The Way of Men.

The Way of Men

In 2012, Donovan published The Way of Men. In it, Donovan argues for a universal definition of masculinity, based on what he calls the "tactical virtues" of the primal survival gang. Author Sam Sheridan praised it as "a thought-provoking treatise on the essential struggle of men," and Brett McKay cited it on Art of Manliness, as an example of "the Nomad/Gen X view of manhood" which takes the position that "the only way to end the misandry and gender neutrality that we see in modern Western society is for society to collapse, as the tactical virtues of manliness are best demonstrated in a chaotic world." The book also received a positive review on AlternativeRight.com from F. Roger Devlin.

Views

Donovan states that his focus is on philosophy, specifically "the way that ... words and the ideas associated with them shape the way that we see ourselves and how we see the world around us, and ... asking the question, "is that what we want?" And if not, how do we change the way that we use these words and ideas so that we can better become who we want to be, to reach our full potential?"

Donovan promotes four "tactical virtues" which he argues have been critical to masculinity throughout history and across cultures, namely strength, courage, mastery, meaning "to be competent and to be able to perfect the skills necessary for them to fulfill their role as men" and honor, meaning "to care what other men thought of them, men specifically in their group, and how outsiders perceived their group." He also supports the related concept of nobility or "master morality," developed by the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This was an expression of "the mindset and the worldview of powerful people" who were confident in themselves and valued strength and success.

Other books

• Androphilia (2007)
• Blood Brotherhood and Other Rites of Male Alliance (2009)
• A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
• Becoming A Barbarian (2016)

See also

• Anarcho-primitivism
• Mythopoetic men's movement

External links

• "What is masculinity?" - An Introduction to The Way of Men