Author: Alain de Benoist
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10,607 words
Translated by Greg Johnson*
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…)
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8,580 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Translator’s Note:
In “Critique of Liberal Ideology,” Alain de Benoist uses the term “liberalism” in the broad European sense of the term that applies not just to American liberalism but also to American libertarianism and mainstream conservatism, insofar as all three share a common history and common premises. (more…)
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2,180 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Representative democracy—essentially liberal and bourgeois—is the most widespread political regime in the Western world today. (more…)
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3,641 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
The idea of progress seems one of theoretical presuppositions of modernity. One can even regard it, not without reason, as the real “religion of Western civilization.” (more…)
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2,087 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
There are probably as many theories of nationalism as there are nationalist theories. It is obviously impossible to give an account of them here. We will not take part in the false quarrel over whether nationalism is a pathological exacerbation of patriotism, (more…)
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May 12, 2012 Alain de Benoist
Gustave Le Bon
1,488 words
Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie des foules
“A multidão é sempre intelectualmente inferior ao indivíduo isolado, mas do ponto de vista dos sentimentos e das ações que esses sentimentos provocam, a multidão pode, segundo as circunstâncias, ser melhor ou pior que o indivíduo. Tudo depende da natureza da sugestão à qual a multidão é exposta”.
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May 12, 2012 Alain de Benoist
Gustave Le Bon
1,713 words
Die englische Übersetzung von Matthew Peters erschien zum Gedenken an Gustave le Bons Geburtstag (7.5.1841) am 7. Mai 2012 auf Counter-Currents. Das französische Original stammt von Alain de Benoist und erschien in Vu de droite: anthologie critique des idées contemporaines (Paris: Le Labyrinthe, 2001 [1977]), pp. 282–284. Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Osimandia.
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1,758 words
Translated by Matthew Peters
Translations: German, Portuguese
Editor’s Note:
We are publishing this translation in commemoration of Gustave Le Bon’s birth, on May 7, 1841.
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January 15, 2012 Alain de Benoist
Смерть у кредит
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Beyond Human Rights:
Defending Freedoms
Foreword by Eric Maulin
Arktos Media, 2011
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Beyond Human Rights is the second of Alain de Benoist’s book-length political works to appear in English. (more…)
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1,297 words
Translated by Tomislav Sunic
Ukrainian translation here
Ezra Pound, in his famous Canto XLV With Usura writes: (more…)