New Culture, New Right

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New Culture, New Right is the first English-language study of the identitarian
movements presently reshaping the contours of European politics. The study's focus
is Alain de Benoist's GRECE (Groupement de Recherche et d'Etude pour la
Civilisation Européenne), which Paul Piccone of Telos described as the most
interesting group of continental thinkers since the existentialists of the 1950s and
which elsewhere is seen as the leading school of contemporary Right-wing thought.
Made up of veterans from various nationalist, traditionalist, far Right, and regionalist
movements, the GRECE began as an association of French intellectuals committed
to restoring the crumbling cultural foundations of European life and identity. Due to
the quality of its publications and its philosophically persuasive reformulation of the
Right project, it attracted an immediate audience. By the late 1970s it had recruited
an impressive array of Continental thinkers to its ranks. In Italy, Germany,... Tovább

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New Culture, New Right is the first English-language study of the identitarian
movements presently reshaping the contours of European politics. The study's focus
is Alain de Benoist's GRECE (Groupement de Recherche et d'Etude pour la
Civilisation Européenne), which Paul Piccone of Telos described as the most
interesting group of continental thinkers since the existentialists of the 1950s and
which elsewhere is seen as the leading school of contemporary Right-wing thought.
Made up of veterans from various nationalist, traditionalist, far Right, and regionalist
movements, the GRECE began as an association of French intellectuals committed
to restoring the crumbling cultural foundations of European life and identity. Due to
the quality of its publications and its philosophically persuasive reformulation of the
Right project, it attracted an immediate audience. By the late 1970s it had recruited
an impressive array of Continental thinkers to its ranks. In Italy, Germany, Belgium,
and a number of other European countries, there have since emerged
organizations and publishing concerns either directly linked to the Paris-based
GRECE or involved in analogous endeavors. As a result of these diffusions,
GRECE-style identitarianism has come to form the chief ideological alternative to
the regnant liberalism.
The European New Right to which the GRECE gave birth is new, however, not in the
modernist sense of being novel, but in the traditionalist sense of reappropriating an
origin whose meaningful possibilities remain open for realization. Such a
revolutionary return to Europe's roots has never seemed so urgent. After a half
century under the liberal-democratic regimes imposed by the United States in 1945,
Europeans now face extinction as a race and a culture. In opposition to the
ethnocidal forces of the American Occupation and its European collaborators,
New Rightists appeal to the primordial in their people's heritage, aiming to awake
a spirit of resistance and renaissance in them. The result, as documented in this
introduction to their ideas, is one of the most formidable critiques ever made of the
liberal project.
Michael O'Meara, Ph.D., studied social theory at the Écoles des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, and modern European history at the University of California. He
is the author of Guilloume Foye and the Battle of Europe (2013), also published by
Arktos. Vissza