Happy Birthday, Alain de Benoist!

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Today is the 80th birthday of Alain de Benoist, the founder and leading thinker of the French “New Right” who redefined the Right in post-war Europe, and ultimately transcended the Left/Right divide altogether in his effort to oppose and surpass liberalism. His thought is also central to the Counter-Currents project. The immense breadth of his work spans far more than merely the political, however, encompassing significant works on anthropology, literature, philosophy, religion, and other topics as well.

Counter-Currents has published many essays by and interviews with him over the years, as well as entire books:

• “A Brief History of the Idea of Progress.”
• Against Liberalism (translation in progress).
• “Alain de Benoist on France’s Response to the Coronavirus.”
• “Alain de Benoist on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre” (Czech, Spanish).
• “Alain de Benoist on Trump and Le Pen.”
• “Critique of Liberal Ideology.”
• “Death on the Installment Plan” (Ukrainian version here).
• “Democracy: Representative and Participatory.”
• “Dugin’s Eurasianism Is Incompatible with Nationalism.”
• “Ernst Jünger and the French New Right.”
• “Ernst Jünger: The Figure of The Worker Between the Gods & the Titans,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Portuguese).
• “France in the Midst of Riots” (Czech version here).
• “A Friendship of Differences: An Interview with Alain de Benoist.”
• “Georges Sorel” (Czech version here).
• “Gustave Le Bon” (German, Portuguese).
• “Interview on Christianity,” Part 1, Part 2 (Czech, Slovak).
• “Interview on the Human Sciences,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
• “Irreplaceable Communities” (from The Populist Moment).
• “Jünger and Drieu La Rochelle.”
• “Jünger, Heidegger, and Nihilism.”
• “The Jünger–Heidegger Correspondence” (Ukrainian version here).
• “Knut Hamsun” (Czech, Portuguese).
• “Macron: Between Naïveté and Impotence.”
• “Nationalism: Phenomenology and Critique.”
• “‘A New Type of Right Has Emerged’: A Conversation with Alain de Benoist” (Polish version here).
• “On Fascism.”
• “On French Politics, Populism, Trump, Hungary, and Being a Right-wing Intellectual.”
• “Populism in Its Pure Form.”
• The Populist Moment.
• “Soldier, Worker, Rebel, Anarch: Types and Figures in Jünger’s Writings” (Greek version here).
• “Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power.”
• “There Was No Biden Surge.”
• “Tribute to Dominique Venner” (Czech, Greek).
• “Trump, for Lack of Something Better” (Greek version here).
• “‘We Are at the End of Something’: The American Renaissance Interview.”
• “Whatever Happens, the Yellow Vests Have Already Won.”
• What Is the Ideology of Sameness?
• “The Yellow Vests Have Made the Most French Part of France Visible” (Czech version here).

We have also published the following about his work:

• Anonymous, “G.R.E.C.E. Undertakes the Defense of Western Culture: Good Minds are Stirring in France” (from Instauration).
• Jonathan Bowden, “The European New Right.”
• Collin Cleary, “Paganisme sans dieux : Alain de Benoist et Comment peut-on être païen ?”
• F. Roger Devlin, “Human Rights Between Ideology and Politics: Alain de Benoist’s Beyond Human Rights.”
• F. Roger Devlin, “Alain de Benoist on Populism” (video).
• F. Roger Devlin, “Alain de Benoist’s Vivid Memory,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
• F. Roger Devlin, “Rethinking Democracy: Alain de Benoist’s The Problem of Democracy.”
• John Law, “Natural Rights vs. Human Rights: A Critique of Alain de Benoist.”
• John Law, “Thoughts on the European New Right,” Part 1, Part 2.
• Eugène Montsalvat, “Alain de Benoist’s On the Brink of the Abyss.“
• Michael Walker, “Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism” (Czech version here).
• Michael Walker, “Populism: Beyond Left and Right? — Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment” (podcast).
• Michael Walker, “When Did You Last See Your Father?”, Part 1, Part 2.

You can buy Alain de Benoist’s Ernst Jünger between the Gods and the Titans here.

Middle Europe Books has published Alain de Benoist’s book Ernst Jünger: Between the Gods and the Titans.

See also posts tagged Alain de Benoist for essays that refer to him in passing.