Where Have All the Fascists Gone?

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Author
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The ENR’s Historical and Ideological Origins: The Right-Wing Roots
	Ideological Origins: The Counter-Revolution Against 1789
	The Post-War Years: Gradual Metapolitical Turn
2 The ENR’s Birth and Development in France: A New Right?
	GRECE’s “Cultural War” Begins
	The French New Right in the 1970s: Dark Days to Respectability
	The “Hot Summer” in 1979
3 The Nouvelle Droite in the 1980s and 1990s: Opening to the Left
	The Nouvelle Droite in the 1990s and Beyond: Fascism Revisited or Mere Cultural Criticism?
	The Second “Hot Summer” in 1993
4 The ENR and the Legacy of May 1968 – A Critical Turning Point
	ENR Perceptions of May 1968: We Alone Carry The Flame
	The ENR New Guard
	The Context of French, European and International Politics in 1968
5 ENR Influences and Worldview: The Primacy of Metapolitics and the “Right to Difference”
	The Consistent Metapolitical Thread: A Break with the Old Right?
	Traditional Politics of the “Masses” Versus the Metapolitics of the “Philosopoher Kings”
	The ENR’s Focus on the “Culture Wars”: A Stroke of Genius?
	The ENR’s Other Faith: Anti-Egalitarianism or the “Right to Difference”
	The ENR’s Nightmare: A Universal, Egalitarian World Society of Happy Consumers
6 Ambiguities in the ENR Worldview
	Cultural Metapolitics versus Traditional Politics
	Paganism versus the Judeo-Christian Tradition
	Intellectual Elitism versus Popular Social Change
	The “Conservative Revolution” versus New Left
	Conservative versus Revolutionary View of the World
	Scientism-Intellectualism versus Myth-Making
	Simplistic Anti-Americanism versus Recycling of American Federalism
	Pro-Third World Stance versus Pronounced Euro-Centrism
	A Communitarian “Destiny” versus Intellectual Freedom
7 Interpreting the ENR
	Classification of the Scholarly Literature
	Position One: “Designer Fascism” or “Ur-Fascism”?
	Position Two: A New Political Paradigm?
	Position Three: Ideological Synthesis of Old and New Right?
	Position Four: Confusion and Ambiguity
	The Griffin-Taguieff Debate: Fascism or Post-Fascism?
	A Note of Academic Caution
8 The Influence of the Nouvelle Droite in Europe and Beyond: A Right-Wing International?
	The Nouvelle Droite’s Pan-European Context
	The Italian Nuova Destra: Fascism’s Kiss of Death?
	The ENR in North America: The Isolated Case of Telos or a Broader Cultural and Political Trend?
	A Short History of Telos: The Drift from Left to Right
	Telos Considers the Merits of the ENR Worldview: The 1993-4 Debates
	Telos and the ENR Debates: Idiosyncratic or Broader Phenomenon?
	Lessons of the ENR-Telos Rapprochement
9 The ENR’s Relationship to the Extreme-Right and Neo-Fascism
	Divergences Between the ENR and Alain de Benoist and the Front National (FN)
	The Affinity Between the ENR and Extreme-Right: The Anti-Egalitarian Ethos and the Obsessive Quest for Identity?
	ENR Connections to Extreme-Right and Neo-Fascist Circles
10 Treason of the Intellectuals?
	The Failure to Claim Historical Responsibility: Recycling the Demons of the Past?
	The Role of Modern Intellectuals: All Traitors?
	ENR Intellectuals: The Reign of Interests or the Fires of Idealism?
	Metapolitics, Apoliteia and Political Power
	ENR Views of Human Nature and Political Power: Between Malleable Man and “Eternal” Conflict
Conclusion
References
Index