Giovanni Sessa Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Da diversi decenni Alain de Benoist, attraverso un’inesauribile attività di poligrafo eclettico, scandita dalla pubblicazione di molti libri e articoli sugli argomenti più disparati, conduce una battaglia personale volta in qualche modo a decostruire i termini-chiave del mondo moderno, in vista di un suo superamento radicale. Infatti, per quanto possa sembrare un paradosso, nell’interpretazione del pensatore francese una reale evoluzione dell’esperienza umana dipenderà non solo dall’emancipazione dalle convenzioni e dai pregiudizi del passato, ma dall’emancipazione consapevole dal moderno, inteso come summa di prospettive ormai inadeguate.

The Problem of Democracy is the first of Alain de Benoist's book-length political works to appear in English. It presents the complexity and depth which underlies all of de Benoist's work and which is often neglected by those who seek to dismiss him by oversimplifying or distorting his arguments. De Benoist shows how democracy is, contrary to what some critics have claimed, something which has been a part of our civilisation from the beginning. The problem, he says, is not the notion of democracy in itself, but rather the current understanding of the term which, instead of empowering the individual, reduces him to little more than a cog in a machine over which he has no control, and in which the direction is set by politicians with little genuine accountability. De Benoist proposes that effective democracy would mean a return to an understanding of citizenship as being tied to one's belonging to a specific political community based on shared values and common historical ties, while doing away with the liberal notion of the delegation of sovereignty to elected representatives. The type of government which is called for is thus a return to the form of government widely understood in Antiquity, but which now seems to us to be a revolutionary notion. This is the first in a series of volumes by Alain de Benoist which will be translated and published by Arktos.