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Alain de Benoist

1943 - Today

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Alain de Benoist ( də bə-NWAH; French: [alɛ̃ də bənwa]; born 11 December 1943), 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 (France's New Right), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE. Principally influenced by thinkers of the German Conservative Revolution, de Benoist is opposed to Christianity, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, neoliberalism, representative democracy, egalitarianism, and what he sees as embodying and promoting those values, namely the United States. He theorized the notion of ethnopluralism, a concept which relies on preserving and mutually respecting individual and bordered ethno-cultural regions. His work has been influential with the alt-right movement in the United States, and he presented a lecture on identity at a National Policy Institute conference hosted by Richard B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain de Benoist has received more than 637,834 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alain de Benoist is the 418th most popular philosopher (up from 448th in 2019), the 1,201st most popular biography from France (up from 1,346th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alain de Benoist ranks 418 out of 1,267. Before him are Eudemus of Rhodes, Buddhaghosa, Siger of Brabant, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, John Philoponus, and Bernard of Chartres. After him are Pavel Florensky, Dong Zhongshu, Olympiodorus the Younger, Dhul-Nun al-Misri, Adam Ferguson, and Ge Hong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Alain de Benoist ranks 85. Before him are Joni Mitchell, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Chantal Mouffe, Sam Shepard, John Denver, and Piet Keizer. After him are Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Jean-Louis Tauran, Wolfgang Overath, Barbara Bouchet, Mario J. Molina, and Fouad Siniora.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain de Benoist ranks 1,201 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Laurencin (1883), René Thom (1923), Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (1930), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Jean Todt (1946), and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838). After him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Francis III, Duke of Brittany (1518), Fromental Halévy (1799), Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (1334), Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), and Armand Guillaumin (1841).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Alain de Benoist ranks 55. Before him are Jean Gerson (1363), Richard Avenarius (1843), Étienne Gilson (1884), Alain de Lille (1117), Étienne Cabet (1788), and Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782). After him are Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), Ernest Gellner (1925), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), and Petrus Ramus (1515).

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