num_pages: 334
description: This book is the first systematic analysis of the efforts of a broad range of contemporary far-right thinkers to popularize their critiques of liberal-democratic norms and institutions and make their ideas the subjects of sustained political and academic debate.The book focuses on outspoken thinkers in western and eastern Europe Russia the United States Canada and Australia. They include Alain de Benoist Guillaume Faye Gtz Kubitschek Pat Buchanan Fri Midjord Jason Jorjani contributors to the online magazine Quillette and the elusive personality known as the Bronze Age Pervert. The book explores the diverse intellectual foundations of these thinkers positions the similarities and differences in their ideas and their prospects for influencing attitudes about democratic politics within their respective countries. It examines diverse movements and schools of thought including the European New Right Paleoconservatism the Alt-right Identitarianism White nationalism and antifeminism.Providing a much-needed global perspective this book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of populism right-wing extremism identity politics fascism racism and conservatism.
language: English
title: Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy
publisher: Routledge