Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist

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 580,910 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Alain de Benoist is the 448th most popular philosopher (up from 502nd in 2019), the 1,351st most popular biography from France (up from 1,511th in 2019) and the 64th most popular French Philosopher.