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Notes
[←1 ]
An interview on the affair in Figaro-Magazine, forthcoming through L’ge d’homme, in Dossier H consecrated to Louis Pauwels.
[←2 ]
Current Values. — Tr.
[←3 ]
The Spectacle of the World. — Tr.
[←4 ]
pensée unique. — Tr.
[←5 ]
Nouvelle Droite. — Tr.
[←6 ]
Cf. the preface to Alain de Benoist, L’écume et les galets, 1991–1999. Dix ans d’actualité vue d’ailleurs, Labyrinth, Paris 2000.
[←7 ]
André Harris and Alain de Sédouy, Qui n’est pas de droite ?, Seuil, Paris, 1978.
[←8 ]
Julien Freund, ‘Pluralité of égalités et équité’, in Politique et impolitique, Sirey, Paris 1987, p. 180.
[←9 ]
For contextual reasons detailed below, l’unique has been translated as ‘uniformity’. — Tr.
[←10 ]
Ibid., p. 183.
[←11 ]
Norberto Bobbio, Destra e sinistra. Ragioni et significati di una distinzione politica, Donzelli, Roma 1994 (trad. fr.: Droite et gauche: Essai sur une distinction politique, Seuil, Paris 1996).
[←12 ]
John Rawls, Théorie de la justice, Seuil, 1987.
[←13 ]
Op. cit., p. 186.
[←14 ]
Carl Schmitt, Théorie de la Constitution, PUF, Paris 1993, pp. 363–365.
[←15 ]
Ibid., pp. 372–373.
[←16 ]
Ibid., p. 371.
[←17 ]
Ibid., p. 365.
[←18 ]
Ibid., p. 371.
[←19 ]
Op. cit., p. 19.
[←20 ]
Ibid., pp. 181–182.
[←21 ]
dons et contre-dons, literally ‘gifts and counter-gifts’, or ‘offers and counter-offers’. A process of reciprocal exchange is indicated by the context: thus ‘giving and receiving’, or perhaps ‘giving and returning’. — Tr.
[←22 ]
Paul Yonnet, ‘Diversité, difference’, in Une certaine idée, 4e trim. 2000, p. 94.
[←23 ]
Le Même, ‘the Same’ or ‘Sameness’. When used in a philosophical sense, it is often contrasted with l’Autre, ‘Otherness’. — Tr.
[←24 ]
L’Unique generally means ‘only, single, sole’ as well as ‘unique’, but here it clearly has the sense of ‘uniform’, or ‘uniformity’ (rather than ‘uniqueness’). Frequently capitalised in Benoist’s French, l’Unique is contrasted with the idea of l’Autre. The word autre simply means ‘other’, but when capitalised and taking the definite article — l’Autre, ‘the Other’, ‘Otherness’ — it situates itself within a long tradition of philosophical usage, from Hegel to Saïd. The opposition between l’Unique and l’Autre thus evokes the related polarity of ‘Sameness’ and ‘Difference’ (le Même and la Différence), also frequently employed by Benoist. L’Unique as ‘Uniformity’ thus emphasises the sense of homogeneity (rather than uniqueness) implied in this context. That which is uniform has only one single form; it is opposed by difference and otherness: a diversity of forms. — Tr.
[←25 ]
Latin: ‘source and origin of misery’. — Tr.
[←26 ]
Hannah Arendt, Qu’est-ce que la politique ?, Seuil, Paris, 1995, p. 42.
[←27 ]
Ibid.
[←28 ]
Marcel Gauchet, ‘Croyances religieuses, croyances politiques’, in Le Débat, May–August 2001, p. 10.
[←29 ]
Marcel Gauchet, La religion dans la démocratie. Parcours de la laïcité, Gallimard, Paris 1998, pp. 68–69.
[←30 ]
Art. Cit., p. 10.
[←31 ]
Alain Supiot, ‘La function anthropologique du droit’, in Esprit, February 2001, p. 153.
[←32 ]
Cf. on this subject the book by Philippe Béneton, Les fers de l’opinion, PUF, Paris 2000.
[←33 ]
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘On Poland’, originally published in the Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung, December 9, 1847. — Tr.
[←34 ]
République VIII, 11, 557c.
[←35 ]
angélisme. — Tr.
[←36 ]
Différences et inégalités, Découverte, Paris 1984.
[←37 ]
irrédentismes, from Italian irredento, ‘unredeemed’, referring to the political desire to redeem (i.e. reclaim, reoccupy) a lost territory. — Tr.
[←38 ]
French polémogène, something that ‘generates conflict’, from Greek polemos, ‘war, polemic’ + -gen, ‘something produced’. Cf. German Polemogen. — Tr.
[←39 ]
Pierre-André Taguieff, Marianne, 21 May 2001, p. 68.
[←40 ]
La religion dans la démocratie, op. cit., p. 92.
[←41 ]
Here Benoist appears to play on the word voire, ‘indeed’ and the verb voir ‘to see, view’ which alludes to the title of the book: Vu de Droite, literally ‘viewed from the right’. — Tr.
[←42 ]
Open Letter to the Right. — Tr.
[←43 ]
The Right in France. — Tr.
[←44 ]
Latin, ‘to each his own’. — Tr.
[←45 ]
The Diplomatic World. — Tr.
[←46 ]
Côte cour and côte jardin (‘court side’ and ‘garden side’) are French theatre terms corresponding to our ‘stage right’ and ‘stage left’. The directions are implicit in French, but can only be translated explicitly in English. — Tr.
[←47 ]
Benoist cites the French translation: Libres enfants de Summerhill (Maspéro, 1970). — Tr.
[←48 ]
Celebrations and Civilisations. — Tr.
[←49 ]
‘The Right Delivered from Plunder’, The Diplomatic World. — Tr.
[←50 ]
autogestionnaires. — Tr.
[←51 ]
pratique théorique. — Tr.
[←52 ]
politique politicienne. — Tr.
[←53 ]
Les sociétés de pensée is a term that derives from the work of historian and sociologist, Augustin Cochin, specifically: Les Sociétés de Pensée et la Démocratie: Études d’Histoire Révolutionnaire (Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1921). The expression literally means ‘societies of thought’, but is usually translated as ‘philosophical societies’. — Tr.
[←54 ]
The Complex of the Right, and The Complex of the Left. — Tr.
[←55 ]
Être-au-monde, cf. Heidegger’s In-der-Welt-sein. — Tr.
[←56 ]
le comportement «verbomoteur». — Tr.
[←57 ]
massiste. — Tr.
[←58 ]
maurrassien, a partisan of Charles Maurras; cf. Maurrassisme. — Tr.
[←59 ]
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985). — Tr.
[←60 ]
musique «planante», conventionally translated as ‘space music’, a genre at the time the book was written. — Tr.
[←61 ]
essences fraternelles. — Tr.
[←62 ]
Italian, ‘bringing up to date, modernisation’, per the Second Vatican Council. — Tr.
[←63 ]
The expression piloter à vue means ‘to fly by sight’, i.e. without using instruments; it also has the sense of ‘to fly by the seat of one’s pants’. — Tr.
[←64 ]
Latin, ‘Authority not truth makes the law’. — Tr.
[←65 ]
encadrement d’images et accroche-mythes. — Tr.
[←66 ]
Benoist says ‘toutes les vaches sont grises’ (all cows are grey) but I have translated directly after Hegel (Phänomenologie des Geistes. Bamberg/Würzburg 1807, Sämtliche Werke II, 22) who says ‘alle Kühe schwarz sind’. The context is Hegel’s likening of the dissolution of determination to a night in which ‘all cows are black’ — Tr.
[←67 ]
Thucidides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.41. Cf. Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morality, 1.11. — Tr.
[←68 ]
The Sword of Damocles. — Tr.
[←69 ]
Sciences and the future. — Tr.
[←70 ]
The Roots of Civilization: the Cognitive Beginning of Man’s First Art, Symbol, and Notation (New York McGraw Hill, 1971). — Tr.
[←71 ]
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1961). — Tr.
[←72 ]
Notations in the Engravings of the Upper Palaeolithic. — Tr.
[←73 ]
I.e. the French translation of Marshack’s book. — Tr.
[←74 ]
Pre-Writings and the Evolution of Civilisations. — Tr.
[←75 ]
The Ninth Congress of the International Meeting of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. — Tr.
[←76 ]
The Indo-Europeans. The French edition cited here is translated from the Spanish original: El problema indoeuropeo (Mexico: Universita Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 196o). — Tr.
[←77 ]
The European Peoples. — Tr.
[←78 ]
The Origin of the Aryans. — Tr.
[←79 ]
The Primordial Homeland of the Indo-Europeans. — Tr.
[←80 ]
The Homeland of the Common Indo-Germanic Language. — Tr.
[←81 ]
Indo-European Origins. — Tr.
[←82 ]
Genos, from the Greek, ‘race, stock, clan, kin, offspring’, as well as ‘gender, kind, class’, etymologically related to a range of words for birth (e.g. genesis). cf. Latin genus. — Tr.
[←83 ]
Benoist is drawing attention to the etymological connection of French ingénu (innocent, simple, ingenuous) to Greek genos. — Tr.
[←84 ]
Presumably connected to Greek dēmos, ‘people, the common populace’. — Tr.
[←85 ]
A couvade is a kind of ‘sympathetic pregnancy’, referring to a practice among certain cultures in which the husband takes on some of the behaviours of the pregnant woman. — Tr.
[←86 ]
While French genou ‘knee’, is visibly closer to genos and engender, the English word ‘knee’ is also in fact cognate with the words Benoist enumerates here. — Tr.
[←87 ]
The Tripartite Ideology of the Indo-Europeans. — Tr.
[←88 ]
The connection is more transparent in French: miel, ‘honey’. — Tr.
[←89 ]
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