Key Thinkers Of The Radical Right: Behind The New Threat To Liberal Democracy

353 Pages·2019·1.9 MB·English

by  Mark J. Sedgwick

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Key Thinkers of the Radical Right
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Key Thinkers of the
Radical Right
Behind the New Threat to Liberal
Democracy
Edited by
MARK SEDGWICK
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction— mark sedgwick xiii
PART I: Classic Thinkers
1. Oswald Spengler and the Decline of the West—d avid engels 3
2. Ernst Jünger and Storms of Steel—e lliot y. neaman 22
3. Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Identity—r einhard mehring 36
4. Julius Evola and Tradition—h . thomas hakl 54
PART II: Modern Thinkers
5. Alain de Benoist and the New Right—j ean- yves camus 73
6. Guillaume Faye and Archeofuturism—s téphane françois 91
7. Paul Gottfried and Paleoconservatism—s eth bartee 102
8. Patrick J. Buchanan and the Death of the West—e dward ashbee 121
9. Jared Taylor and White Identity—r ussell nieli 137
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10. Alexander Dugin and Eurasianism—m arlene laruelle 155
11. Bat Ye’or and Eurabia—s indre bangstad 170
PART III: Emergent Thinkers
12. Mencius Moldbug and Neoreaction— joshua tait 187
13. Greg Johnson and Counter- Currents—g raham macklin 204
14. Richard B. Spencer and the Alt Right— tamir bar- on 224
15. Jack Donovan and Male Tribalism—m atthew n. lyons 242
16. Daniel Friberg and Metapolitics in
Action—b enjamin teitelbaum 259
Select Bibliographies 277
Index 293
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Contributors
Edward Ashbee is director of the International Business and Politics BSc
and MSc programs at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He has
had articles published in journals such as Political Quarterly, Parliamentary
Affairs, Global Discourse, Society, Journal of Political Power, and Journal of
American Studies. His recent work includes The Right and the Recession
(2015) and The Trump Revolt (2017). He also coedited The Obama Presidency
and the Politics of Change (2017).
Sindre Bangstad is a Norwegian social anthropologist with a background
in ethnographic studies of Muslims in South Africa and Norway, and a
researcher at KIFO (the Institute for Church, Religion, and Worldview
Research) in Oslo. Bangstad, who has published extensively on secularism,
racism, Islamophobia, right-w ing extremism, hate speech, and right-w ing
populism in Norway, holds a cand. polit. degree from the University of
Bergen in Norway and a PhD from Radboud University in Nijmegen in the
Netherlands. He is a columnist at Anthropology News and has published in
popular outlets such as Boston Review, The Guardian (UK), Open Democracy,
the SSRC’s The Immanent Frame, and in leading anthropological journals
such as American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Anthropological
Theory, Anthropology Today, and Social Anthropology. Among his books are
Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia (2014), The Politics of Mediated
Presence: Exploring the Voices of Muslims in Norway’s Contemporary Mediated
Public Spheres (2015), and Anthropology of Our Times: An Edited Volume in
Public Anthropology (2017).
Tamir Bar- On received his PhD from McGill University. He is a
professor- researcher in the School of Social Sciences and Government,
Tec de Monterrey (Mexico). A member of Mexico’s National System for
Researchers since 2015, Bar- On is the author of Where Have All The
Fascists Gone? (2007), Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to
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Modernity (2013), The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global
Sport (2014), and Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen
through the Beautiful Game (2017).
Seth Bartee is an Assistant Professor of History at Guilford Technical
Community College in Jamestown, North Carolina. Currently, Prof. Bartee
is serving as a New City Fellow in Raleigh, North Carolina and a Visiting
Scholar at The Kirk Center in Mecosta, Michigan. Bartee is an intellectual
historian and an active member of The Society for US Intellectual History.
Jean- Yves Camus is director of the Observatoire des radicalités politiques
(ORAP) at the Jean Jaurès Foundation (Paris) and a Research Fellow at
the Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS). His last
book (with Nicolas Lebourg), Far Right Politics in Europe, was published by
Harvard University Press in 2017. He has also written extensively on the
European New Right and the links between Russia and the European Far
Right. On those topics, he contributed to Marlene Laruelle’s Eurasianism
and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe-R ussia Relationship (2015)
and to Les Faux- semblants du Front national: Sociologie d’un parti politique
(2015), edited by Sylvain Crépon, Alexandre Dézé, and Nonna Mayer.
David Engels is professor of Roman history at the Université libre de
Bruxelles, Belgium. He has published numerous articles and books on
Roman Religion, Hellenistic Statecraft, the Reception of Antiquity, and
the Philosophy of History. Among his best- known works is Le déclin: La
crise de l’Union européenne et la chute de la République romaine: Analogies
historiques (2013), translated since then into numerous languages. He also
edited a survey of cyclical theories in the Philosophy of History titled Von
Platon bis Fukuyama (2015).
Stéphane François has a PhD in political science and is an associated
member of Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (CNRS/E cole Pratique
des hautes Etudes). He is a specialist on the French extreme Right. His
most recent books include Histoire de la haine identitaire: Mutations et
diffusions de l’altérophobie (with Nicolas Lebourg, 2016), L’Extrême droite
et l’ésotérisme: Retour sur un couple toxique (2016), Le Retour de Pan:.
Panthéisme, néo- paganisme et antichristianisme dans l’écologie radicale
(2016), Les Mystères du nazisme:. Aux sources d’un fantasme contemporain
(2015), and Au- delà des vents du Nord: L’extrême droite française, le Pôle nord
et les Indo-E uropéens (2014).
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Hans Thomas Hakl is the founder of Gnostika, a German academic- esoteric
magazine where he serves as coeditor. He has edited works by Julius
Evola, Eliphas Lévi, Gérard Encausse (“Papus”), Maria De Naglowska,
Hans Freimark, and others. He is a contributor to the Dictionary of Gnosis
and Western Esotericism (2003) and to the new edition of the Encyclopedia of
Religions (2005). His main work, Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History
of the Twentieth Century, was published by McGill-Q ueen’s University
Press in 2013. Hakl has translated four books of Evola into German and
written more than thirty articles (including introductions, reviews, and
dictionary entries) on various aspects of Evola in German, Italian, English,
and French. Hakl met Evola shortly before his death.
Marlene Laruelle is an associate director and research professor at the
Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott
School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.
Laruelle is also a codirector of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to
Research and Security in Eurasia), director of the Central Asia Program
at IERES and a researcher at EUCAM (Europe-C entral Asia Monitoring),
Brussels. Laruelle received her PhD in history at the National Institute of
Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO) and her postdoctoral degree
in political science at Sciences- Po in Paris.
Matthew Lyons has been writing about right-w ing politics for more
than twenty- five years. His work focuses on the interplay between social
movements and systems of oppression. He is coauthor with Chip Berlet
of Right- Wing Populism in America (2000) and lead author of Ctrl- Alt-
Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right (2017). His essays have
appeared in many periodicals and on the radical antifascist blog Three
Way Fight.
Graham Macklin is an Assistant Professor/P ostdoctoral Fellow at the
Center for Research on Extremism (C- Rex) in Oslo, Norway, and an
Honorary Fellow, Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/N on- Jewish
Relations, Southampton University, United Kingdom. He has published
widely about extreme right-w ing politics in Britain in both the interwar and
postwar period including “Very Deeply Dyed in Black”: Oswald Mosley and
the Resurrection of British fascism after 1945 (2007). His forthcoming mon-
ograph White Racial Nationalism in Britain in Britain will be published
by Routledge in 2019 as will two coedited collections, Transnational