De Benoist defined identity as a dialogical phenomenon, inspired by Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue and Ich und Du concept
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Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist, 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, and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.
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culture · French journalist and political theorist (born 1943) · philosopher · writer · essayist · political activist · political theorist · journalist · political scientist · opinion journalist · also Alain de Benoist, Fabrice Laroche, Cédric de Gentissard, Robert de Herte, Martial Laurent, Tanguy Gallien
Born 11 December 1943 · Q516375
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2006· 1 entry
2000· 1 entry
Disavowed Guillaume Faye's "strongly racist" ideas regarding Muslims after the publication of The Colonization of Europe: Speaking Truth about Immigration and Islam
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1993· 1 entry
After a virulent campaign in French and German media against the "red and brown threat" in Russia
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1992· 2 entries
De Benoist dismissed the Front National's use of ethnopluralism on the grounds that it portrayed "difference as an absolute, whereas, by definition, it exists only relationally
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And Dugin presented himself as the Moscow correspondent of GRECE for a time
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1991· 2 entries
Described European supporters of the first Gulf War as "collaborators of the American order"
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The editorial staff of his magazine Eléments described the danger of adopting a "systematic anti-egalitarianism [that could] lead to social Darwinism, which might justify free-market economy"
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1989· 1 entry
And the two of them soon became close collaborators
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1979· 1 entry
And 1993, two press campaigns launched in French liberal media against de Benoist damaged his public reputation and influence in France by claiming that he was in reality a "closet Fascist" or a "Nazi"
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded Prix de l'essai (1978).
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Le Figaro Magazine) from 1977 to 1982; he then wrote for the videos section of Le Figaro Magazine until 1992
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The prestigious Prix de l'essai by the Académie française for his book View for the Right (Vu de droite: Anthologie critique des idées contemporaines)
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1977· 2 entries
“progressive disappearance of diversity from the world”
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That the greatest danger in the world at that time was the "progressive disappearance of diversity from the world", including biodiversity of animals, cultures and peoples
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1974· 1 entry
“there is no superior race. All races are superior and each of them has its own genius.”
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1968· 1 entry
Ran as a candidate for the far-right Party of New Forces during the 1979 European Parliament election
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1966· 3 entries
Les Indo-Européens ("The Indo-Europeans") and Qu'est-ce que le nationalisme
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Had written: "The European race does not have absolute superiority
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Had written: "Race is the only real unit encompassing individual variations
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1965· 4 entries
De Benoist wrote: "We oppose Rougier to Sartre, as we oppose verbal delirium to logics
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De Benoist deplored the suppression of racial segregation in the United States, and wrote as a prediction that the system would survive outside the law, thus in a more violent way
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(in which he had participated via the grassroots movement T
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“We oppose Rougier to Sartre, as we oppose verbal delirium to logics ..., because biological realism is the best support against those idealistic chimeras”
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1964· 1 entry
The editor-in-chief of the weekly publication Europe-Action Hebdomaire, renamed L'Observateur Européen in October 1966
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1962· 1 entry
Became the secretary of the group's magazine, Cahiers universitaires, in which he wrote the main articles along with d'Orcival
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1961· 1 entry
De Benoist met François d'Orcival, with whom he became the editor of France Information, an underground pro-OAS newspaper
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1960· 1 entry
By writing literary pieces and pamphlets for Coston's magazine Lectures Françaises, generally in defence of the French colonial empire and the pro-colonial paramilitary organization Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS)
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1957· 1 entry
Met the daughter of the antisemitic journalist and conspiracy theorist Henry Coston
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1943· 2 entries
Born 1943-12-11.
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Alain de Benoist was born on 11 December 1943 in Saint-Symphorien (now part of Tours), Centre-Val de Loire, the son of a head of sales at Guerlain, also named Alain de Benoist, and Germaine de Benoist, née Langouët.
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