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Systems and Debates

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by Alain de Benoist


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  TN: Metaphysics and Language.

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  TN: This is a reference to Emile Combes and his strongly anticlerical policy, which led to the separation of Church and State in 1905.

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  TN: Born Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, Léo Taxil was a French author and journalist famous for his uncompromising anti-Catholic and anti-clerical stances.

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  TN: In France, that is.

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  TN: The Gap.

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  TN: Freudian Scholastics.

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  TN: The Logic of the Living.

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  TN: Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-British writer and journalist who espoused various political causes, including that of Communism/Stalinism.

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  TN: The Problems of Atheism.

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  TN: August Wilhelm von Schlegel (8th September, 1767–12th May, 1845) was a German poet who, among other achievements, translated Shakespeare’s works into German, elevating them to the status of classics in his homeland.

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  TN: Maurice Clavel (10th November, 1920–23 April, 1979) was a French author, philosopher and journalist.

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  TN: Atheism in Contemporary Life and Culture.

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  TN: Atheism in Contemporary Philosophy.

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  TN: The Moral Doctrine of the Prophets of Israel.

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  TN: The Chief Notions of Christian Metaphysics.

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  TN: The Issue of God’s Existence in Today’s World.

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  TN: The Teachings of Yeshua of Nazareth.

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  TN: In actual fact, these words are found in Ecclesiastes 3:19.

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  TN: René Descartes (31st March, 1596–11th February, 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, and is considered by many to be the father of modern western philosophy.

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  TN: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21st June, 1905–15th April, 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic and is considered a pivotal figure in existentialist literature and philosophy.

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  TN: In the metaphysical sense of the word.

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  TN: The fifteenth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church.

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  TN: You, the Little God.

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  TN: Alfred Binet (8th July, 1857–18th October, 1911) was a French psychologist and the inventor of the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test.

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  TN: Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who placed great emphasis on the fact that, in order to comprehend reality, our understanding of the processes of immediate experience and intuition is more significant than abstract rationalism and science.

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  TN: The Soul and the Body.

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  TN: The Issue of the Soul.

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  TN: François Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher and a prominent early socialist thinker; he is considered one of the founders of utopian socialism.

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  TN: Owenism is the utopian socialist philosophy embraced by 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen. His followers and successors are thus known as Owenites. The purpose of Owenism was to attain the radical reforming of society.

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  TN: Babouvism can be defined as a social and political doctrine and movement that promotes a programme of egalitarianism and communism in harmony with the views formulated by François-Noël Babeuf.

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  TN: François-René (Auguste), vicomte de Chateaubriand (4th September, 1768–4th July, 1848) was a French author, political figure, diplomat and historian and is considered to have been the founder of Romantic French literature.

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  TN: From the Greek νοῦς (nous ‘mind’) and σφαῖρα (sphaira ‘sphere’), the noosphere is the domain or, more accurately, the sphere of human thought.

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  TN: The Human Phenomenon.

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  TN: Utopia and Civilisations, published by French author and journalist Gilles Lapouge in 1973.

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  TN: Born in 1788 in Dijon, France, Étienne Cabet was a French philosopher and utopian socialist who passed away in St. Louis, Missouri in 1856.

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  TN: Friedrich Engels (28th November, 1820–5th August, 1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman.

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  TN: The Basics of Communism.

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  TN: Mircea Eliade (9th March, 1907–22nd April, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, as well as a fiction author, a philosopher, and a professor at the University of Chicago.

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  TN: Aspects of the Myth.

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  TN: Nothing new under the sun.

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  TN: Giorgio Locchi (1923–25th October, 1992) was an Italian journalist and author and among the founders of Alain de Benoist’s GRECE.

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  TN: The notion of Music and the Temporal Aspect of History.

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  TN: The author is undoubtedly referring to the Nietzschean notion of a Hinterwelt.

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  TN: René Sédillot (2nd November, 1906–21st October, 1999) was a French historian and journalist.

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  TN: History Has No Direction.

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  TN: Born in Paris in 1922, Pierre Fougeyrollas was a French philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist.

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  TN: Marxism at Issue.

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  TN: The Sociology of Communism.

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  TN: Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work played a decisive role in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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  TN: Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist and dramatist.

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  TN: Utopia, an Eternal Heresy.

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  TN: History.

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  TN: In the Face of History — A Few Non-Systematic Remarks.

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  TN: Against the End of History, or How to Avoid Exiting the Latter.

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  TN: The Life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

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  TN: The Historical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin.

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  TN: A Prophet in the Making.

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  TN: In Hegelian philosophy, synthesis represents the final stage in the process of dialectical reasoning, in which a new idea resolves the conflict between thesis and antithesis.

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  TN: Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand (30th October, 1894–4th September, 1977) was a French biologist who was also active in the philosophical domain.

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  TN: Étienne Gilson was a French scholar of mediaeval philosophy.

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  TN: Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger (29th June, 1900–31st July, 1944), comte de Saint-Exupéry, was a French author, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator who received several awards during his lifetime.

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  TN: Henri Fesquet is a French author born in 1916.

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  TN: Teilhard de Chardin’s Religious Thought.

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  TN: France — A Mission Country?

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/>   TN: Introduction to Christianity.

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  TN: The Heart of Matter.

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  TN: ‘Cabal of the Devout’, a reference to the ‘devout party’ and the Company of the Blessed Sacrament.

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  TN: Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19th January, 1924–30th April, 2006) was a French journalist, philosopher, and member of the Académie française. Having adhered to socialist beliefs in his youth, Revel later became a significant European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics.

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  TN: The contents of.

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  TN: A Letter on Chimpanzees.

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  TN: Clément Rosset (12th October, 1939–28th March, 2018) was a French philosopher and author.

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  TN: Saint Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish Basque priest and a theologian. He is famous for being both the founder and first Superior General of the religious order known as the Society of Jesus (Order of the Jesuits).

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  TN: In the Wake of the Sinanthropus.

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  TN: The Divine Sphere.

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  TN: A French writer.

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  TN: A French film director.

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  TN: The ‘Semana Santa’, i.e the annual tribute to the Passion of Christ.

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  TN: Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, generally referred to as Boileau, was a French poet and a critic.

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  TN: A Challenged Church.

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  TN: A French daily newspaper whose title means ‘Humanity’.

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  TN: Christian Members of the Communist Party?

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  TN: Jacques Milhau is a professor emeritus and has published several works.

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  TN: Post-Marx Faith.

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  TN: Christians and Communists — Week of Marxist Thought.

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  TN: Philosophy and Religion.

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  TN: The Marxists and the Evolution of the Catholic World.

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  TN: Communists and Christians — Communists or Christians?

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  TN: Témoignage Chrétien, or Christian Testimony, is a French weekly.

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  TN: Marxist Analysis and Christian Faith.

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  TN: Meaning ‘New City’.

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  TN: A Materialistic Interpretation of the Gospel According to Mark.

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  TN: The Bible’s Materialistic Approaches.

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  TN: The Angel.

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  TN: ‘Libidinal Economics’ is considered one of Jean-François Lyotard’s greatest works. Lyotard was a renowned French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.

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  TN: A French philosopher.

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  TN: Wilhelm Reich (24th March, 1897–3rd November, 1957) was an Austrian psychoanalyst and doctor of medicine. His greatest works include Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) and The Sexual Revolution (1936).

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  TN: The Golden Monkey.

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  TN: Maurice Druon (23rd April, 1918–14th April, 2009) was a French novelist.

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  TN: The Accursed Kings.

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  TN: The Great Families.

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  TN: The Memoirs of Zeus.

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  TN: Alexander the Great.

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  TN: A Church in the Wrong Century.

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  TN: La Croix, meaning The Cross, is a daily general-interest Roman Catholic newspaper published in Paris.

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  TN: France Catholique, or Catholic France, is a French weekly.

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  TN: Témoignage chrétien, meaning Christian Testimony, is a French weekly of Christian inspiration established in Lyons in 1941.

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  TN: Aspects de la France, or Aspects of France, is a French periodical with traditionally Maurassist and monarchist convictions.

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  TN: Catharism was a Christian dualist and Gnostic movement that dominated a large part of Southern Europe between the 12th and 14th centuries.

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  TN: Bogomilism was a Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist sect established by a priest, Bogomil, during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century. It is likely to have surfaced in what is now the region of Macedonia before spreading further.

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  TN: The Waldensians, named after their founder, Peter Waldo, constituted a pre-Protestant Christian movement that began in Lyons around 1173.

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  TN: The Song of the Partisans.

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  TN: A Church in the Wrong.

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  TN: Long Live the Consumerist Society.

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  TN: Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher, sociologist and political theorist with strong ties to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

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  TN: Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist who first proposed the notion of the ‘right to the city’.

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  TN: Marxism.

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  TN: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27th January, 1756–5th December, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. His prodigious talent allowed him to begin composing at the age of five.

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  TN: Pieter Bruegel (also Breughel) the Elder (c. 1525–1530–9th September, 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting.

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  TN: William Shakespeare (c. 26th April, 1564–23rd April, 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the ‘Bard of Avon’.

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  TN: Fernando Arrabal Terán (born 11th August, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet.

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  TN: Tendency of the Rate Profit to Fall.

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  TN: The Decolonisation of Europe.

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  TN: Fatherland and Progress.

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  TN: Thierry Maulnier was a French literary critic, journalist, essayist, and dramatist.

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  TN: National Society and Class Struggle.

 

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