Alain de Benoist
French journalist and political theorist (born 1943) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alain de Benoist (/də bəˈnwɑː/ də bə-NWAH, French: [alɛ̃ də bənwa]; born 11 December 1943), also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names,[1] is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite (France's New Right), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.
Alain de Benoist | |
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Born | (1943-12-11) 11 December 1943 (age 80) Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Nouvelle Droite |
Notable ideas | Modernization and secularization of Christian values, repaganization of the West, pensée unique, Nouvelle Droite, ethnopluralism |
Principally influenced by thinkers of the German Conservative Revolution,[2] de Benoist is opposed to Christianity, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, neoliberalism, representative democracy, egalitarianism, and what he sees as embodying and promoting those values, namely the United States.[3] He theorized the notion of ethnopluralism, a concept which relies on preserving and mutually respecting individual and bordered ethno-cultural regions.[4][5]
His work has been influential with the alt-right movement in the United States, and he presented a lecture on identity at a National Policy Institute conference hosted by Richard B. Spencer; however, he has distanced himself from the movement.[6][7]