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and cultural roots And certainly, talking about cinema and comic books, of politology and the sciences, of etiology and energy, of sexuality and celebration, of community and sport, of literature and art was different from evoking the past and envisioning apotheosis. The New Right is this as well, a project for taking back daily life, free time, the world of personal interests, a recognition of that which is different-from-us. Perhaps less than we believe. An admission of plurality against monomaniacal ends. A proposal not for leaving the world, but for taking it back.
182:'s teachings, allows us to gain cultural power before political power, which does not exclude that in the near future someone could bring our cultural programs to a more political plane. Since I do not think that the same people should do the cultural and political work, and also because people have natural predispositions for one or the other, I have chosen to be a cultural operator and I have no intention of transforming myself into a political man. 621: 173:, and valorises regionalism, federalism, socialism and local forms of democracy. It rejects the principle of human equality, arguing that humans are not born free and equal and that society is inherently hierarchical. It stressed the need for elites, claiming that this would allow for harmonious social hierarchy in which all people are aware of their particular responsibilities and tasks. 188:
Right in front of us the path of “metapolitics” became clear. That is to say, it was something that did not disregard political needs but transcended them, to comprehend them in a more vast, more complex design that implicated profound ideological revisions (without changing the vision of the world)
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By ‘metapolitics’ I mean whatever consequences a philosophy is capable of drawing, both in and for itself, from real instances of politics as thought. Metapolitics is opposed to political philosophy, which claims that since no such politics exists, it falls to philosophers to think ‘the’ political.
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GRECE has promoted the project of slowly infusing society with its ideas and rhetoric in the hope of achieving cultural dominance, which would then allow for the assumption of political power. Vial stated that "Politics is not the affair of GRECE. It is to be placed on another, more fundamental
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level. GRECE intends to work on the meta-political level where a collective mentality and therefore a popular consensus is elaborated". De Benoist has called for the overthrow of liberal democracy through a long-term metapolitical strategy. Although it rejects liberal democracy, the
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has never endorsed a particular political party, and that its purpose has been as having "always adopted a position of observer, never of actor. It produces analyses and thought; it offers a theoretical corpus; it accomplishes intellectual and cultural work. Nothing else."
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Luca Nicchi (Gianluca Butazzoli) (30 April 1981). “Intervista esclusiva con Alain de Benoist: Cambiare la mentalita` per vincere la decadenza,”
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McCulloch, Tom (2006). "The Nouvelle Droite in the 1980s and 1990s: Ideology and Entryism, the Relationship with the Front National".
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Casadio, M. C. (2014). The New Right and Metapolitics in France and Italy. Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 8(1), 45–86.
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Johnson, Douglas (1995). "The New Right in France". In Luciano Cheles; Ronnie Ferguson; Michalina Vaughan (eds.).
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Inspired by the French example, Italian activists were soon closely aligned. One quote from that era goes:
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and is almost always used in the context of ideological discourse among the
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Bar-On, Tamir (2001). "The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999".
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For this reason we chose a metapolitical strategy that, according to
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De Benoist, Alain (2014). "Alain de Benoist answers Tamar Bar-On".
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Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler
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Index

metalinguistic
politics
Marxists
far-left
far-right
political philosophy
Alain Badiou
left-wing
Alain Badiou
Jacques Rancière
Hannah Arendt
Claude Lefort
Louis Althusser
Sylvain Lazarus
case studies
Thermidoreanism
Nouvelle Droite § Metapolitics and strategy
anti-democratic
modernity
post-modernity
global capitalism
liberalism
Gramsci
Jason Barker
ISBN
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Philosophy for Militants.


McCulloch 2006

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