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Rethinking the French New Right - Alternatives to Modernity (Hardcover, New)
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Rethinking the French New Right - Alternatives to Modernity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
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This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the
'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced
activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries.
This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily
need to come from the left, nor use arms in order to overturn
liberal democracy. In the post-World War Two era, the extremists of
the revolutionary right took three different paths: 1)
parliamentary; 2) extra-parliamentary; and 3) metapolitical. The
New Right (nouvelle droite - ND in France) took the metapolitical
path, but that did not mean it abandoned its revolutionary desire
to smash liberal democracy throughout Europe. The book examines
four interpretations of the New Right. These interpretations
include the following: 1) The New Right as a fascist or
quasi-fascist movement; 2) The New Right as a challenge to the
traditional right-left dichotomy, which has structured European
political debates for more than 200 years; 3) The New Right as an
alternative modernist movement, which rejects liberal and socialist
narratives of modernity; accepts the technical but not political or
cultural effects of modernity; and longs for a pan-European
political framework abolishing liberal multiculturalism and
privileging ethnic dominance of so-called original Europeans; and
4) The New Right as a variant of political religion and
conversionary processes. The book concludes by analysing the
positions, cultural and political impact, and relationship to
democracy of the New Right. This work will be of great interest to
students and scholars of racism, fascism, extremism, European
politics, French politics and contemporary political theory.
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