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Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist was born on 11 December 1943. He is married and has two children. He has studied law, philosophy, sociology, and the history of religions in Paris, France. A journalist and a writer, he is the editor of two journals: Nouvelle Ecole (since 1968) and Krisis (since 1988). His main fields of interest include the history of ideas, political philosophy, classical philosophy, and archaeology. He has published more than fifty books and three thousand articles. He is also a regular contributor to many French and European publications, journals, and papers (including Valeurs Actuelles, Le Spectacle du Monde, Magazine-Hebdo, Le Figaro-Magazine, in France, Telos in the United States, and Junge Freiheit in Germany). In 1978 he received the Grand Prix de l’Essai from the Academie Francaise for his book Vu de droite: Anthologie critique des idees contemporaines (Paris: Copernic, 1977). He has also been a regular contributor to the radio program France-Culture and has appeared in numerous television debates.

Spiritual Authority & Temporal Power

Jacques-Louis David, “The Coronation of Napoleon,” 1907, detail

8,635 words

Translated by Jon Graham

Three authors considered as outstanding representatives of “traditionalist thought” turned their attention to the same doctrinal question. Read more …

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Georges Sorel

Georges Eugène Sorel (November 2, 1847 in Cherbourg–August 29, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine)

2,012 words

Editor’s Note:

In commemoration of the birth of Georges Sorel on November 2, 1847, we are publishing this anonymous translation of Alain de Benoist’s tribute.

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Re-Reading Rousseau

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, "Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" (1712–1778), pastel on paper, 1753

10,607 words

Translated by Greg Johnson*

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is a rather curious case in the history of ideas. After two centuries, he is still the object of truly passionate opinions (you either love him or you hate him), and few authors have given rise to as many contradictory interpretations. He is commonly seen as an inspiration for the French Revolution, but also as an influence on German nationalism. Read more …

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Critique of Liberal Ideology

Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697

8,580 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translator’s Note:

In “Critique of Liberal Ideology,” Alain de Benoist uses the term “liberalism” in the broad European sense of the term that applies not just to American liberalism but also to American libertarianism and mainstream conservatism, insofar as all three share a common history and common premises. Read more …

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Democracy:
Representative & Participatory

Bust of Pericles bearing the inscription “Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian,” marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 430 BC

2,180 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Representative democracy—essentially liberal and bourgeois—is the most widespread political regime in the Western world today. Read more …

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A Brief History of the Idea of Progress

John Gast, "Manifest Destiny," 1872

3,641 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

The idea of progress seems one of theoretical presuppositions of modernity. One can even regard it, not without reason, as the real “religion of Western civilization.” Read more …

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Nationalism:
Phenomenology & Critique

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869), "Italia and Germania"

2,087 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

There are probably as many theories of nationalism as there are nationalist theories. It is obviously impossible to give an account of them here. We will not take part in the false quarrel over whether nationalism is a pathological exacerbation of patriotism, Read more …

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Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931

1,488 words

Translations: English, German

Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie des foules

“A multidão é sempre intelectualmente inferior ao indivíduo isolado, mas do ponto de vista dos sentimentos e das ações que esses sentimentos provocam, a multidão pode, segundo as circunstâncias, ser melhor ou pior que o indivíduo. Tudo depende da natureza da sugestão à qual a multidão é exposta”.

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Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931

1,713 words

Die englische Übersetzung von Matthew Peters erschien zum Gedenken an Gustave le Bons Geburtstag (7.5.1841) am 7. Mai 2012 auf Counter-Currents. Das französische Original stammt von Alain de Benoist und erschien  in Vu de droite: anthologie critique des idées contemporaines (Paris: Le Labyrinthe, 2001 [1977]), pp. 282–284. Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Osimandia.

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Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon, 1841–1931

1,758 words

Translated by Matthew Peters

Translations: German, Portuguese

Editor’s Note:

We are publishing this translation in commemoration of Gustave Le Bon’s birth, on May 7, 1841.

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Ernst Jünger e O Trabalhadorr:
Uma trajetória vital e intelectual entre os deuses e os titãs

Ernst Jünger and his brother Friedrich Georg Jünger

3,510 words

English version, Part 1 and Part 2

Ao evocar O Trabalhador, ao mesmo tempo que a primeira versão de Coração Aventureiro, o ensaísta Armin Mohler, Read more …

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Смерть у кредит

The Dance of Death, 1474, fresco painting (Church of St. Mary, Beram, Croatia)

1,051 words

English original here

Езра Паунд, у своєму славнозвісному канто XLV «Через лихву» писав: Read more …

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Beyond Human Rights

Beyond Human Rights:
Defending Freedoms

Foreword by Eric Maulin
Arktos Media, 2011
118 pp

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Beyond Human Rights is the second of Alain de Benoist’s book-length political works to appear in English. Read more …

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Death on the Installment Plan

The Dance of Death, 1474, fresco painting (Church of St. Mary, Beram, Croatia)

1,297 words

Translated by Tomislav Sunic

Ukrainian translation here

Ezra Pound, in his famous Canto XLV With Usura writes:  Read more …

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The Problem of Democracy

Preface by Tomislav Sunic
Arktos Media, 2011
104 pp

paperback: $16

The Problem of Democracy is the first of Alain de Benoist’s book-length political works to appear in English. Read more …

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Листування Юнґера з Гайдеґґером

1,113 words

English original here

Коли двоє великих людей – і яких людей, безумовно найвидатніший філософ двадцятого століття і один з найвпливовіших письменників – листуються між собою, що саме воно обговорюють? Read more …

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Knut Hamsun

1,012 words

English version here

Knut Hamsun é um mistério. Enquanto quase todos os seus trabalhos foram traduzidos para o Francês; enquanto houve algumas adaptações para o cinema e televisão; enquanto – diferentemente de tantos outros –, seus livros não são “nem antiquados, nem obsoletos” (Hubert Nyssen), ele ainda é ignorado pelo público francês. Read more …

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On Being a Pagan

Edited by Greg Johnson
Translated by Jon Graham
Preface by Stephen Edred Flowers
Atlanta: Ultra, 2004
240 pages
paperback: $20

“In this small masterpiece, the great French thinker Alain de Benoist claims that only the pagan deities of ancient Europe offer a spiritual recourse to the present religious malaise. Read more …

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Knut Hamsun

1,000 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Portuguese translation here

Knut Hamsun is a mystery. While almost all his works have been translated into French, while there have been quite a few movie and television adaptations, while—unlike so many others—his  books are “neither out-of-date nor obsolete” (Hubert Nyssen), he is still ignored by the French public. Read more …

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Ernst Jünger:
The Figure of The Worker Between the Gods & the Titans, Part 3

Friedrich Hielscher, 1902–1990

1,572 words

Part 3 of 8 (Click here for Parts 1 & 2)

Translated by Greg Johnson

In April 1928, Ernst Jünger entrusted the editorship of Der Vormarsch to his friend Friedrich Hielscher. Read more …

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