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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, mainly 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain de Benoist is the 416th most popular philosopher (up from 418th in 2019), the 1,202nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,201st in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alain de Benoist ranks 416 out of 1,267. Before him are Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Jean Gerson, Hilary Putnam, Leszek Kołakowski, Bharadwaja, and Francis Hutcheson. After him are Adolf von Harnack, Masanobu Fukuoka, John Toland, Yi Hwang, Étienne Gilson, and Gargi Vachaknavi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Alain de Benoist ranks 78. Before him are Tom Holland, Wolfgang Overath, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Lucio Dalla, Joni Mitchell, and Mario J. Molina. After him are Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Holland Taylor, John Denver, Jerry Bruckheimer, Arthur Ashe, and Yohji Yamamoto.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain de Benoist ranks 1,202 out of 6,770. Before him are Raymond Radiguet (1903), Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805), Jacques Demy (1931), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (1523), and Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701). After him are Bertran de Born (1140), La Hire (1390), Louise Henriette de Bourbon (1726), Georges Ernest Boulanger (1837), Guy, Count of Flanders (1226), and Henry I of Navarre (1244).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Alain de Benoist ranks 56. Before him are Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Edgar Morin (1921), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Richard Avenarius (1843), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), and Jean Gerson (1363). After him are Étienne Gilson (1884), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Alain de Lille (1117), Vincent of Beauvais (1190), Maine de Biran (1766), and Guillaume Budé (1467).

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