Description “A specter is haunting Europe” — this time not the pretenses of communism, but a whole constellation of thinkers, movements, and cultural initiatives that have been cast together under the label of the “New Right.” In The Rise of the New Right, Alexander Markovics cuts through misunderstandings and caricatures in order to map the New Right’s origins, key ideas, and wide-ranging figures and fronts from postwar France to the contemporary landscape. Combining an updated historical overview with an in-depth exploration of concepts, Markovics examines themes such as metapolitics, ethnopluralism, geopolitics, ecology, and the Fourth Political Theory, drawing attention to how the New Right’s leading lights and offshoots have changed as well as remained consistent in aspiring to critically rethink the crisis of liberal modernity and cultivate a European renaissance. The Rise of the New Right provides an accessible introduction for newcomers as well as a creative synthesis for scholars, including excursions into the often overlooked chapters of the German New Right and the ideas of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin.
