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 Benoistfs GRECE
(Groupement de Recherche et dfEtude pour la Civilisation
Européenne), which Paul Piccone of Telos describes as the most
interesting group of continental thinkers since the existentialists of
the 1950s and which elsewhere is recognized as the most formidable
school of contemporary right-wing thought. Made up of veterans
from various nationalist, traditionalist, far Right, and regionálist
movements, the GRECE began as an association of French
intellectuals committed to restoring the crumbling cultural founda-
tions 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.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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 Benoistfs GRECE
(Groupement de Recherche et dfEtude pour la Civilisation
Européenne), which Paul Piccone of Telos describes as the most
interesting group of continental thinkers since the existentialists of
the 1950s and which elsewhere is recognized as the most formidable
school of contemporary right-wing thought. Made up of veterans
from various nationalist, traditionalist, far Right, and regionálist
movements, the GRECE began as an association of French
intellectuals committed to restoring the crumbling cultural founda-
tions 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, Belgiu m, 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 represent the most
prominent ideological alternative to the regnant liberalism.
The European New Right to which the GRECE gave birth is
new not in the modernist sense of being novel, but in the traditionalist
sense of reappropriating an origin whose meaningful possibilities
remain open for realization. Never, New Rightists claim, has a
revolutionary return to their people's roots been more 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. Against this, their appeal to the most primordial facets of
their people's heritage aims at awakening the spirit of resistance and
renaissance. The result, as documented in this introduction to its
ideas, is one of the most remarkable critiques ever made of the liberal
project. Vissza