Key Thinkers of the Radical Right

Mark Sedgwick was born in England and studied history of Oxford University before emigrating to Egypt. He received his PhD at the University of Bergen in Norway, taught history at the American University in Cairo, and then moved to Denmark to teach in the Department of the Study of Religion at Aarhus University. He was secretary of the European Society of the Study of Western Esotericism; he first became aware of the connections between esotericism and radical politics while working on his PhD.

• Introduction by Mark SedgwickSection I: Classic ThinkersChapter 1: Oswald Spengler and the Decline of the West by David Engels Chapter 2: Ernst Jünger and Storms of Steel by Elliot Y. Neaman Chapter 3: Carl Schmitt and the Concept of the Political by Reinhard MehringChapter 4: Julius Evola and Tradition by H. Tomas Hakl Section II: Modern ThinkersChapter 5: Alain de Benoist and the New Right by Jean-Yves Camus Chapter 6: Guillaume Faye and Identitarianism by Stéphane François Chapter 7: Paul Gottfried and Paleoconservatism by Seth Bartee Chapter 8: Patrick J. Buchanan and the Death of the West by Edward Ashbee Chapter 9: Jared Taylor and White Identity by Russell Nieli Chapter 10: Alexander Dugin and Eurasianism by Marlene Laruelle Chapter 11: Bat Ye'or and Eurabia by Sindre Bangstad Section III: Emergent ThinkersChapter 12: Mencius Moldbug and Neoraction by Joshua Tait Chapter 13: Greg Johnson and Counter-Currents by Graham Macklin Chapter 14: Richard B. Spencer and the Alt Right by Tamir Bar-OnChapter 15: Jack Donovan and Male Tribalism by Matthew N. LyonsChapter 16: Daniel Friberg and Metropolitics by Benjamin TeitelbaumNotesBibliographyIndex

Sixteen expert scholars explain sixteen thinkers, providing an introduction to their life and work, a guide to their thought, and an explanation of their work's reception. The book thus provides an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the thought behind the stunts and the resurgence, the thought of the radical Right