Today is the 80th birthday of Alain de Benoist, the 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 https://counter-currents.com/2011/11/paganisme-sans-dieux-alain-de-benoist-et-icomment-peut-on-etre-paien/
- 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.
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.