Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right
Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right er en bok skrevet av Tomislav Sunic. Den ble utgitt i 1990 (andre opplag i 2004, og tredje nyredigerte og utvidete utgave på Arktos i 2011) og er den første engelskspråklige boken om Europeiske Nye Høyre. Boken er delt opp i to deler, den ene tar for seg tenkere som har preget det Nye Høyre ideologisk og den andre delen de historiske prosessene som har ført til det samfunnet Nye Høyre kritiserer. Boken er ofte blitt brukt som en første innføring i den identitære kritikken av moderniteten, og blir vanligvis anbefalt som en bok man bør lese før Michael O'Meara sin bok "New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe" og Sunics siste bok "Homo Americanus".
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| ” | Against Democracy and Equality was the first book ever published in the English language on the European New Right, and it remains an indispensable introduction to a school of thought which remains a vibrant force in the understanding of European politics.
Dr. Sunic examines the principal themes which have concerned the thinkers of the New Right since its inception by Alain de Benoist in 1968, such as the problematic nature of the label 'New Right' for a school which sees itself as being beyond traditional concepts of both the left and the right; its revolutionary political philosophy; its conception of history in terms of cycles; its attitude toward democracy, capitalism and socialism; and its endorsement of 'pagan' spirituality. He also discusses the significance of some of the older authors who have been particularly influential on the development of the movement, such as Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt and Vilfredo Pareto. This new edition of Against Democracy and Equality has been completely re-edited, and offers new prefaces by both Dr. Sunic and the principal theorist of the European New Right, Alain de Benoist. Also included for the first time is the Manifesto for a European Renaissance, which highlights the positions of the New Right as it enters a new millennium. |
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- Editor’s Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- The New Right: Forty Years After
- Introduction and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition (2003)
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition (1990)
- Part One: Introducing the New Right
- Introduction
- I. Enter the New Right
- II. The ‘Gramscianism’ of the Right
- III. The Conservative Left or the Revolutionary Right?
- IV. Carl Schmitt and Politics as Destiny
- V. Oswald Spengler and History as Destiny
- VI. Vilfredo Pareto and Political Pathology
- VII. The Pagan Right
- Part Two: The Egalitarian Mystique
- Introduction
- I. The Metaphysics of Equality
- II. The New Right and the Elusive Equality
- III. Homo Economicus: The Battle of All Against All
- IV. Totalitarianism and Egalitarianism
- V. Homo Sovieticus: Communism as Egalitarian Entropy
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Major Figures of the European New Right
- Appendix II: Manifesto for a European Renaissance
- Bibliography
- Index
