My presentation for my book Rethinking the French New Right at EGAP, TEC DE MONTERREY.

On May 23, 2013 I was invited to the prestigious graduate school EGAP at the TEC DE MONTERREY (CAMPUS MONTERREY) to speak about my second book Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity (Routledge, 2013). Attached is the presentation for the lecture:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/157851501/Rethinking-the-French-New-Right

http://www.docstoc.com/mydocuments/

Kind regards,

Tamir Bar-On

Rethinking the French New Right: Talk at EGAP!

On May 23, I will speak at the prestigious EGAP at the TEC de MONTERREY in Monterrey, Mexico. I will be talking about my book Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity (Routledge, 2013).

All the best,

Tamir Bar-On

Release of my new book: Rethinking the French New Right

My new book Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity (Routledge, 2013) was released yesterday:

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415814058/

Here is a summary of the book written by the publisher Routledge:

This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries.

This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily need to come from the left, nor use arms in order to overturn liberal democracy. In the post-World War Two era, the extremists of the revolutionary right took three different paths: 1) parliamentary; 2) extra-parliamentary; and 3) metapolitical. The New Right (nouvelle droite – ND in France) took the metapolitical path, but that did not mean it abandoned its revolutionary desire to smash liberal democracy throughout Europe.

The book examines four interpretations of the New Right. These interpretations include the following: 1) The New Right as a fascist or quasi-fascist movement; 2) The New Right as a challenge to the traditional right-left dichotomy, which has structured European political debates for more than 200 years; 3) The New Right as an alternative modernist movement, which rejects liberal and socialist narratives of modernity; accepts the technical but not political or cultural effects of modernity; and longs for a pan-European political framework abolishing liberal multiculturalism and privileging ethnic dominance of so-called original Europeans; and 4) The New Right as a variant of political religion and conversionary processes. The book concludes by analysing the positions, cultural and political impact, and relationship to democracy of the New Right.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of racism, fascism, extremism, European politics, French politics and contemporary political theory.

All the best,

Tamir Bar-On

Latest academic articles

Here are my latest academic articles in peer-reviewed journals listed below. I now have 12 peer-reviewed articles. I also have 10 articles in books and 2 published books.

“The French New Right: Neither Right, Nor Left?,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, accepted and forthcoming, Spring 2013.

“The French New Right’s Quest for Alternative Modernity,” Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 1 (2012), pp. 18-52.

“Is the New Left today’s French New Right?,” Retos Internacionales 5 (Fall 2011), pp. 85-105.

Happy spring!!!

Tamir Bar-On

Working on a new book on Football (Soccer)!

My new book: Rethinking the French New Right

Hello to all my readers!
 

I have some good news! My new book,  Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity, will be published by Routledge on March 1st 2013. It is part of a series called Extremism and Democracy. I began work on the book in late June 2009 and I am glad it will be published shortly!

 

I am also back to teaching! We began teaching here in Mexico in early August!

 

All the best,

 

Tamir

10th Peer-Reviewed Article!

It has been a while since I wrote here, but I have some good news! My tenth academic peer-reviewed article was recently published in a new journal called Fascism, which is based in Holland. See the links for the journal below:

http://www.brill.nl/publications/journals/fascism

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/22116257

My piece is entitled "The French New Right's Quest for Alternative Modernity," from Fascism , volume 1, issue 1 (2012), pp. 18-52.

A happy Easter and joyous Passover to all my readers!

Warmest regards,

Tamir Bar-On