Alain de Benoist
Sign in to saveAlso known as Fabrice Laroche, Cédric de Gentissard, Robert de Herte, Martial Laurent, Tanguy Gallien, Frédéric Laurent, Pierre Dolabella, Maxime Meyer
French political theorist
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1943-12-11 ) 11 December 1943 (age 82) , Tours , Indre-et-Loire, France
- Alma mater
- University of Paris
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy French philosophy
- School
- Nouvelle Droite
- Notable ideas
- Modernization and secularization of Christian values, repaganization of the West, pensée unique , Nouvelle Droite , ethnopluralism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alain
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Saint-Symphorien
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- modern paganism
- Award
- Prix de l'essai
- Movement
- ethnic nationalism
- Official website
- www.alaindebenoist.com
- Image
- Alain de Benoist dans le documentaire Alain de Benoist. Réponses de Simone Olla.png
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- pseudonym
- Bastien O'Danieli
- date of birth
- 1943-12-11
- Commons category
- Alain de Benoist
- birth name
- Alain Marie de Benoist
- writing language
- French
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Encyclopedic overview
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, 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.
Principally influenced by thinkers of the German Conservative Revolution, 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, mainly the United States. He theorized the notion of ethnopluralism, a concept which relies on preserving and mutually respecting individual and bordered ethno-cultural regions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alain de Benoist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.