View from the Right Series by Alain de Benoist
View from the Right #2
Systems and Debates
Alain de Benoist
A Critical Anthology of
Contemporary Ideas
View from the Right, Volume II: Systems and
Debates is a compendium of the essays of Alain de Benoist, the
founder of the French New Right and one of the most vital and
challenging intellectuals in the contemporary European scene. In
excellent translation with copious footnotes, this collection of
essays covers a startling range of political, religious, and
sociological topics, addressing controversial issues and responding
to a variety of interlocutors with razor-sharp wit and matchless
erudition.
In this second volume of the View from the
Right series, de Benoist brings his penetrating analysis to bear
on democracy and Communism, gender roles and ecology, contemporary
art and warfare, and historical figures as diverse as Georges Sorel,
Arthur de Gobineau, Ernest Renan and Alexis de Tocqueville. Covering
issues from Left to Right and back again, de Benoist tackles
everything from the Catholic Church and the existence of God to
euthanasia and the end of the world. The result is a fascinating and
vivacious tour of impressive gamut, undertaken by one of the keenest,
and bravest, minds of our times.
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View from the Right #3
Controversies and Viewpoints
Alain de Benoist
In this third and culminating volume
of his magisterial View from the Right,
founder of the French New Right Alain de Benoist concludes his
remarkable ‘Critical Anthology of Contemporary Ideas’.
Volume III: Controversies and
Viewpoints brings de Benoist’s
encyclopaedic knowledge to bear on a startlingly wide range of
figures and ideas, in a series of essays which are united by a
singular power of level-headed discernment.
The
topics treated include matters as diverse as the validity or falsity
of parapsychology, capitalism versus communism and East versus West,
touching on periods and places as different as Imperial Japan,
Confucian China and Hitler’s Germany, and addressing, through
careful consideration of the internal conflicts of contemporary
France, pressing questions regarding ethnicity and citizenship,
nationhood and union, power and politics, spirituality and
secularism. The survey that results from this symphony of
perspectives is as panoramic as it is rich, stimulating new ideas at
every turn and building up finally to the great political and
geopolitical challenges of our time.
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