Alain de Benoist

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Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist
Benoist with pen and paper in front of his computer.
Benoist with pen and paper in front of his computer.

Alain de Benoist, born 11 December 1943, is a French academic and philosopher, mostly known as the founder of the GRECE and the larger cultural movement European New Right.

[edit] Criticism from the Right

Recently, however, GRECE’s opposition to multiculturalism has undergone a significant shift. Until 1998, it consistently opposed multiculturalist efforts to recognize immigrant communities as separate legal entities, for it claimed these efforts threatened the integrity of French identity. Then, rather unexpectedly, it reversed course, adopting a “communitarian” position favoring the public recognition of non-French communities—so that immigrants could be able to “keep alive the structures of their collective cultural existence.” To some, this shift constitutes nothing less than an identitarian betrayal, for others a recognition that Europe’s enemy is not the immigrant per se, but the system responsible for immigration. The shift was not without controversy, with New Rightists like Guillaume Faye and others rejecting it.-- Samuel Francis

[edit] Selected works

  • Nietzsche: morale et "grande politique" (1973)
  • Vu de droite: Anthologie critique des idées contemporaines (1977)
  • Les idées à l'endroit (1979)
    • Kulturrevolution von rechts: Gramsci und die Nouvelle Droite (1986)
  • Comment peut-on être païen? (1981)
  • Orientations pour des années décisives (1982)
    • Die entscheidenden Jahre: Zur Erkennung des Hauptfeindes (1982)
  • Démocratie: le problème (1985)
    • Demokratie: das Problem (1986)
  • Communisme et nazisme: 25 réflexions sur le totalitarisme au XXe siècle, 1917-1989 (1998)
    • Totalitarismus: Kommunismus und Nationalsozialismus - die andere Moderne, 1917-1989 (2001)
  • Aufstand der Kulturen: Europäisches Manifest für das 21. Jahrhundert (1999)
  • Schöne Vernetzte Welt: Eine Antwort auf die Globalisierung (2001)
  • Die Wurzeln des Hasses: Ein Essay zu den Ursachen des globalisierten Terrorismus (2002)
  • Carl Schmitt: Bibliographie seiner Schriften und Korrespondenzen (2003)
  • Critiques - Théoriques (2003)
  • Die Schlacht um den Irak: Die wahren Motive der USA bei ihrem Kampf um Vorherrschaft (2003)
  • Au-delà des droits de l’homme: Pour défendre les libertés (2004)
    • Kritik der Menschenrechte: Warum Universalismus und Globalisierung die Freiheit bedrohen (2004)

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