Against Democracy and Equality

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Against Democracy and Equality
The European New Right
In this important work, Dr. Sunic takes a detailed look at the European "New
Right," a significant intellectual movement of men and women who are
concerned about the survival of the West. This book provides a survey of the
New Right's origins, impact and outstanding figures, and an overview of the
theory of "revolutionary conservatism."
A healthy, enduring society, say New Right thinkers, must be based on the
natural principles of hierarchy and aristocracy. Carl Schmitt, Oswald Spen-
gler, Alain de Benoist, and the other leading figures of this intellectual current
contend that egalitarianism — whether manifest in Marxism or in liberal
democracy — inevitably leads to social decay and entropy.
Rejecting both traditional liberalism and conservatism, the New Right calls
for a European rebirth rooted in a stern awareness of history and human
nature, and based on a recognition of Europe as an organic entity.
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Fülszöveg

Against Democracy and Equality
The European New Right
In this important work, Dr. Sunic takes a detailed look at the European "New
Right," a significant intellectual movement of men and women who are
concerned about the survival of the West. This book provides a survey of the
New Right's origins, impact and outstanding figures, and an overview of the
theory of "revolutionary conservatism."
A healthy, enduring society, say New Right thinkers, must be based on the
natural principles of hierarchy and aristocracy. Carl Schmitt, Oswald Spen-
gler, Alain de Benoist, and the other leading figures of this intellectual current
contend that egalitarianism — whether manifest in Marxism or in liberal
democracy — inevitably leads to social decay and entropy.
Rejecting both traditional liberalism and conservatism, the New Right calls
for a European rebirth rooted in a stern awareness of history and human
nature, and based on a recognition of Europe as an organic entity.
This book, explains a review in American Renaissance newsletter, "not only
traces the history of 'revolutionary conservatism' but introduces a contempo-
rary school of European writers who are struggling to find answers to the
questions that, in America, are not yet being asked. Dr. Sunic has given us
an important book. This review can only begin to summarize the richness of
thought that he has found in scores of books and journals that are not even
available in English. Dr. Sunic has opened the door to a great but little-known
body of learning that directly addresses our current crisis."
Samuel Francis, an American scholar and syndicated columnist, writes that
Tomislav Sunic "has managed to pack in a good deal of information and to
discover several important common themes among the writers he surveys
By far the most intriguing part of Mr. Sunic's book is his account of the New
Right's critique of equality, 'economism,' and Judeo-Christianity, which,
rather than the secularism of the Enlightenment, it sees as the root of
egalitarianism and universalism." Vissza