Mladý Hamsun v roce 1890
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Knut Hamsun zůstává záhadou. Byť byla jeho díla takřka kompletně přeložena do francouzštiny a dočkala se také celé řady filmových i televizních adaptací a přestože nejsou jeho knihy na rozdíl od tolika jiných „zastaralé ani přežité“ (Hubert Nyssen), francouzská veřejnost jej ignoruje. (more…)
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Nicolas Gauthier: Joe Biden has been proclaimed winner of the US presidential election. Donald Trump, who has not conceded defeat, cries fraud and is preparing to engage in a legal battle. What is your analysis? (more…)
Phil Eiger Newmann, Don’t Tread on Us, 2020.
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Μετάφραση από τα Γαλλικά: Greg Johnson
Μετάφραση από τα Αγγλικά: Lohengrin
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Οι προεδρικές εκλογές των ΗΠΑ πλησιάζουν γρήγορα. Προσωπικά, θέλετε να επανεκλεγεί ο Donald Trump; Θα σας ευχαριστούσε μια δεύτερη θητεία αυτού του προέδρου, μόνον και μόνον για να δείτε την έκφραση στα πρόσωπα των αντιπάλων του, Αμερικανών και Ευρωπαίων; (more…)
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Nicolas Gauthier: With his speech at Les Mureaux, and his promise to begin fighting “Islamic separatism,” Emmanuel Macron seems to have discovered previously unglimpsed realities. Is this to his credit? Can we say that he is now regaining control?
Alain de Benoist: Macron has many faults, but he’s not a complete idiot. (more…)
Phil Eiger Newmann, Don’t Tread on Us, 2020.
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The US presidential election is fast approaching. Personally, do you want Donald Trump to be re-elected? Would a second term of this president please you, if only to see the faces of his opponents, American and European?
Alain de Benoist: I would like his re-election, but by default, for lack of something better. As you know, this character doesn’t thrill me that much. (more…)
Alain de Benoist
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Now that things seem to be on the mend, can we say that the government, even if manifestly taken aback, has done too much, too little, or just enough in the face of the epidemic?
There is no other word for it: the reaction of the authorities to Covid-19 has been truly calamitous. Five months after the start of the epidemic, we still have not reached the screening capacity that we should have had when the first deaths appeared. (more…)
Auguste Migette – Svatý Klement a Graoully (1850). Klement Métský bojuje v římském amfiteátru s (métským drakem) Graoullym. Obraz má symbolizovat vítězství křesťanství nad pohanstvím.
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Poznámka Grega Johnsona:
V roce 2005 poskytl Alain de Benoist rozhovor americkému The Occidental Quarterly, který vyšel pod titulem “European Son: An Interview with Alain de Benoist,” v The Occidental Quarterly, Roč. 5, č. 3 (podzim 2005): str. 7–21. (Mezi březnem a červnem 2018 vyšel na tři části i na našich stránkách: díl první, druhý a třetí.)
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Translated from the Hungarian by György Balázs Kun
The following interview appeared in the Hungarian conservative quarterly journal Kommentár, in its second issue for 2019. It was recorded in December 2018. The footnotes were added by Counter-Currents.
“The Old Right is dead, long live the New Right!” could be our cry after seeing the joyful political changes of the last decade. (more…)
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Interviewed by Yann Vallerie; translated by Greg Johnson (The last two questions, on other topics, were omitted.)
The great national debate could be over before it even started. (more…)
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The founder and primary thinker of the French New Right, Alain de Benoist, discusses his view of the ongoing Yellow Vests movement in France and their significance for French politics during his visit to Budapest, Hungary last week. In French with English subtitles.
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Interviewed by Yann Vallerie; translated by Greg Johnson
Breizh-info.com: First of all, how do you analyze the events of these recent weekends?
What I find most striking is, first of all, the continuity of the movement. While the government expected the pressure to ease, it has not. It is the fruit of an extraordinary determination, to which is added a surprising maturity. (more…)
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Boulevard Voltaire: For about ten days now, France has been living in the era of the yellow vests, and opinions about it are already piling up. Flash in the pan or groundswell? (more…)
Georges Sorel
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U příležitosti 170. narozenin Georgese Sorela (2. listopadu 1847) přinášíme tento překlad pocty Sorelovi z pera Alaina de Benoista.
Přestože násilí nutně zůstává na pořadu dne vždy, 50. výročí úmrtí Georgese Sorela by prošlo takřka bez povšimnutí, kdyby nakladatelství Éditions Marcel Rivière nepřipadlo na myšlenku vydat znovu jeho Réflexions sur la violence [Úvahy o násilí] (Paris: Éditions Marcel Rivière, 1973). (more…)
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The following is an interview with Alain de Benoist that was published by the Hungarian magazine Mandiner on November 4, 2017. It was translated from the original French. (more…)
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Editor’s Note: The following is a translation by Greg Johnson of an interview that was conducted in French between the Russian International Eurasian Movement and Alain de Benoist, the founder of the French New Right, in February. (more…)
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Alain de Benoist
On the Brink of the Abyss: The Imminent Bankruptcy of the Financial System
London: Arktos, 2015
188 pages
Paperback: $22
Alain de Benoist argues that the problem with most discussions of the global financial crisisis that they focus on attempting to reform the present economic system in order to prevent such disasters from recurring. (more…)
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Translator’s Note:
In the present brief article, Alain de Benoist sets forth a basic definition of “Fascism,” challenging by implication the unacceptable generalizations of this term by certain Liberal and Leftist scholars today. Benoist also makes it clear that Fascism is a time-bound phenomenon which arose in very specific circumstances, (more…)
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Nicolas Gauthier: Pasando las legítimas indignaciones sobre la masacre en las oficinas de Charlie Hebdo, ¿qué lección podemos sacar de este evento? ¿Deberíamos verlo, como algunos en los medios, como una evidencia de una “guerra total” declarada entre el Islam y el Cristianismo, entre Oriente y Occidente? (more…)
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Alain de Benoist
Carl Schmitt Today
London: Arktos, 2013
108 pages
“Alain de Benoist’s Carl Schmitt Today is a brief, lucid, and topical exposition to Carl Schmitt’s central ideas about enmity, conflict, and geopolitics. (more…)
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Důvody k životu i smrti jsou nezřídka totožné. Rozhodně tomu tak bylo v případě Dominique Vennera, jenž svým činem uvedl svůj život a smrt do hlubokého souznění. Dle svých slov se rozhodl zemřít způsobem nejčestnějším za daných okolností – tedy když slova nemůžou popsat ani vyjádřit pocity. Dominique Venner nakonec zemřel tak, jak žil – se stejnou vůlí a jasností. (more…)
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American Renaissance: You have said that modernity is the enemy of identity. Could you explain this idea further?
Alain de Benoist: When one considers modernity, one must consider two meanings of the word. The first is known to everyone: It is the changes of life that come with more material wealth. But modernity is also the product of an ideology that appeared in the 17th and 18th century with the Enlightenment. (more…)
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Μετάφραση στα Αγγλικά: Greg Johnson
Μετάφραση-επιμέλεια κειμένου: Lohengrin
Τέσσερις μορφές εμφανίζονται διαδοχικά στα γραπτά του Jünger, κάθε μία από αυτές ανταποκρινόμενη σε μία ξεχωριστή περίοδο της ζωής του συγγραφέως. Αυτές είναι χρονολογικά ο Στρατιώτης του Μετώπου, ο Εργάτης, ο Επαναστάτης, ο Άναρχος. (more…)
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μετάφραση Δημήτρης Παπαγεωργίου
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Οι λόγοι για να ζει κανείς και οι λόγοι για να πεθάνει, είναι συχνά οι ίδιοι. Αυτή ήταν σίγουρα η περίπτωση για τον Dominique Venner, του οποίου η χειρονομία σκόπευε στο να φέρει την ζωή και τον θάνατό του σε απόλυτη αρμονία. Είπε ότι επέλεξε να πεθάνει κατά τον τρόπο που ήταν ο πιο έντιμος στις συγκεκριμένες συνθήκες, ειδικά όταν οι λέξεις είναι πια αδύνατον να περιγράψουν, να εκφράσουν το τι νοιώθουμε.
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The reasons for living and the reasons for dying are often the same. This was definitely the case for Dominique Venner, whose gesture aimed at bringing his life and death into deep accord. He said he chose to die in the way that was the most honorable in certain circumstances, particularly when words become powerless to describe, to express what we feel. (more…)
Jacques-Louis David, “The Coronation of Napoleon,” 1907, detail
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Three authors considered as outstanding representatives of “traditionalist thought” turned their attention to the same doctrinal question. (more…)
Maurice Quentin de La Tour, “Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau” (1712–1778), pastel on paper, 1753
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is a rather curious case in the history of ideas. After two centuries, he is still the object of truly passionate opinions (you either love him or you hate him), and few authors have given rise to as many contradictory interpretations. He is commonly seen as an inspiration for the French Revolution, but also as an influence on German nationalism. (more…)
