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Key Thinkers of the Radical Right - Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy

English · Paperback / Softback

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In an increasingly polarized political environment, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right offers a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to the thinkers who form the foundation of the radical right. Sixteen expert scholars explain sixteen classic, modern, and emerging thinkers, focusing on thinkers who are widely read across the political right in both Europe and America.

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  • Introduction by Mark Sedgwick

  • Section I: Classic Thinkers

  • Chapter 1: Oswald Spengler and the Decline of the West by David Engels

  • Chapter 2: Ernst Jünger and the Storm of Steel by Elliot Y. Neaman

  • Chapter 3: Carl Schmitt and the Concept of the Political by Reinhard Mehring

  • Chapter 4: Julius Evola and Tradition by H. Tomas Hakl

  • Section II: Modern Thinkers

  • Chapter 5: Alain de Benoist and the New Right by Jean-Yves Camus

  • Chapter 6: Guillaume Faye and Identitarianism by Stéphane François

  • Chapter 7: Paul Gottfried and Paleoconservatism by Seth Bartee

  • Chapter 8: Patrick J. Buchanan and the Death of the West by Edward Ashbee

  • Chapter 9: Jared Taylor and White Identity by Russell Nieli

  • Chapter 10: Alexander Dugin and Eurasianism by Marlene Laruelle

  • Chapter 11: Bat Ye'or and Eurabia by Sindre Bangstad

  • Section III: Emergent Thinkers

  • Chapter 12: Mencius Moldbug and the Reactionary Enlightenment by Joshua Tait

  • Chapter 13: Greg Johnson and Counter-Currents by Graham Macklin

  • Chapter 14: Richard B. Spencer and the Alt Right by Tamir Bar-On

  • Chapter 15: Jack Donovan and Male Tribalism by Matthew N. Lyons

  • Chapter 16: Daniel Friberg and Expressive Culture by Benjamin Teitelbaum

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index



About the author

Mark Sedgwick was born in England and studied history of Oxford University before emigrating to Egypt. He received his PhD at the University of Bergen in Norway, taught history at the American University in Cairo, and then moved to Denmark to teach in the Department of the Study of Religion at Aarhus University. He was secretary of the European Society of the Study of Western Esotericism; he first became aware of the connections between esotericism and radical politics while working on his PhD.

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In an increasingly polarized political environment, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right offers a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to the thinkers who form the foundation of the radical right. Sixteen expert scholars explain sixteen classic, modern, and emerging thinkers, focusing on thinkers who are widely read across the political right in both Europe and America.

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Sixteen expert scholars explain sixteen thinkers, providing an introduction to their life and work, a guide to their thought, and an explanation of their work's reception. The book thus provides an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the thought behind the stunts and the resurgence, the thought of the radical Right

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