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A World after Liberalism: Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right Paperback – August 16, 2022

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A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century
 
“Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times
 
“One of the best books I’ve read this year. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated.”—Rod Dreher, American Conservative
 
In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the “radical right,” and discusses its adherents’ different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism. Rose shows how such thinkers are animated by religious aspirations and anxieties that are ultimately in tension with Christian teachings and the secular values those teachings birthed in modernity.
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“Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times

“Fascinating.”—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

“Electric to read in this moment, and I strongly recommend.”—Ezra Klein, on Twitter

“One of the best books I’ve read this year. . . . Riveting. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated.”—Rod Dreher, American Conservative

“The writing is fluid and compelling. The analysis is succinct and on point. . . . Rose helps readers understand the allure of alternative visions for the ordering of society and the goal of life.”—R. R. Reno, First Things

“As a Christian conservative, Rose has written his book as a warning against the temptation of Christian nationalism. It’s an exceptionally smart map of an important and understudied intellectual tradition. Crisply written and well researched, it is also fair.”—Jeet Heer, Commonweal

“Intelligent and serious.”—Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Education

“Richly researched and lucidly written.”—Henry George, Front Porch Republic

“‘I get bored by reading people who are allies,’ liberal Isaiah Berlin once remarked. ‘What is interesting is to read the enemy, because the enemy penetrates the defences.’ Even for those more suspicious than Matthew Rose of once peripheral twentieth-century sages of the far right, this book is useful reading, for transatlantic politics are leading more people to revive these idiosyncratic but interesting reactionaries. Rose draws his portraits well; more every day, his gallery is worth the visit.”—Samuel Moyn, Yale University

“This is one of the best discussions of the extreme right’s intellectual foundations that I have ever read. It provides a balanced, thoughtful approach to a movement that we must take very seriously.”—George Hawley, author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right

“This book changed the way I think about radical right wing politics in America and Europe. Matthew Rose’s subjects rarely appear in conventional histories of conservative thought, but his nuanced, humane analysis shows that anyone who wants to understand today’s alt-right and the populist backlash against liberalism needs to take them seriously.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“The five thinkers surveyed in this even-tempered book lie far outside the orbit of conventional liberal thought. But no liberal, progressive or conservative, can afford to ignore the challenge they pose. Anyone who wants to understand the origin and appeal of the alt-right needs to start here.”—Anthony Kronman, author of The Assault on American Excellence

“A fascinating read. I could not put it down. Rose tells the story of a transnational radical right, which is far more intelligent and worldly than the liberal-left claims.”—Tamir Bar-on, Tecnológico de Monterrey, School of Social Sciences and Government

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (August 16, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300268130
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300268133
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
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  • Paul Wilson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read for Scholars of the Radical Right
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2022
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    This is essential reading for those studying the intellectual roots of the identitarian projects giving new life through Trump Movement. One of the key attributes of this work is that it is accessible without watering down the sophistication and complexity of the ideologies it examines. This is so incredibly rare in academia and needs to be lauded when it happens. Further, while the figures of study are incredibly important to the intellectual history of the far-right in America, they've also been sorely under-studied. This is the first (and as far as I can tell only) work that takes seriously the ideas of Yockey, Francis, etc. seriously and as underpinning much of the contemporary conservative movement. If you are a professor of American political science reading this review consider this text for your lecture hall.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars The aluminum man case for illiberalism
    Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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    As Western liberalism seems to sputter to a halt, I am thrilled to see a book on these five thinkers, whatever their pros and cons. Hence the four stars. Unfortunately, Rose treats each as if in mortal fear that he might be associated with one of them. The typical chapter treatment is “X did this and wrote that, but where he went wrong is here.” Ditto “the Christian question” which apparently all five implicitly asked and got wrong, all in the same way. Rose steers clear of stating any views himself but still is able to dismiss the views of his five subjects - presumably a skill one picks up while earning multiple degrees. The skill might be called “nuance” as in one context a subject is “racialist” while in the next he is downgraded to “racist.” Hm. Maybe it’s called begging the question. Whatever it is called, it is avoidable; writing a book about views one agrees with always is a better idea than writing about views one doesn’t agree with. Aluminum doesn’t sharpen aluminum.
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  • P. Gorski
    5.0 out of 5 stars Still baffled by the success of Trumpism and nativist-populism? Read this book1
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2021
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    This intellectual history of "the revolutionary right" via the lives and thought of Spengler, Evola, Yockey, Benoist and Francis is the most illuminating book on the new populist/nativist right that I've read since Hochschild's "Strangers in their Own Land." And I've read a LOT, and written several books of my own on white Christian nationalism in the U.S. The achievement of this book is to reconstruct the ideology of the non-Christian radical right. Rose traces the lineage of this "new" politics to its historical roots in the fascist and fascist-adjacent right of the inter-War period. These writers make explicit what usually remains implicit in the "worldview" of its followers and even its leaders. To his credit, Rose also shows why these ideas appeal and how liberalism has seeded this appeal.
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  • Janek B.
    5.0 out of 5 stars A concise and superb primer on the sources of the alt right
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2022
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    5 ‘philosophers’ are reviewed and explained. I found the analysis illuminating - esp in light of my ongoing search to understand how and why the right thinks and believes as they do. Not a comforting read... but important in understanding the increasing draw to the right in the US and many countries abroad.
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  • JAK
    3.0 out of 5 stars Useful
    Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2021
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    Liberalism appears to be in a state of advanced decay if not a death spiral .It’s attacked by the right wing nationalists and the left wing wokeists.American conservativesism has essentially been a variant of liberalism. You’ll recall Lionel Trillings observation that there is no American conservative tradition. (An observation that set Russell Kirk off). American liberalism used to be , well, liberal.Now it appears to have largely opted for a virtuecratic Jacobinism.It’s in this context that this book is written.It’s well written and informative. Rose examines five extreme right thinkers in an attempt to show , if nothing else what’s out there and where we could be headed.
    He starts with the best known of the five , Oswald Spengler. Spengler is brilliant at times and very quotable . Oh but try reading a whole book! It’s painful.I have never been able to get through Decline of the West or even Man and Technics. Spenglers attack on progressive teleology is admirable. But a little goes a long way. I’m reminded of Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen s author of Diary of a Man in Despair observations on Splenger to the effect that Spengler was the strangest amalgam of of truly human greatness and small and large frailties he’d ever encountered .Sounds right!
    Next comes Julius Evola . There’s a foot note in the book where Rose cites a letter from Carl Schmitt to Ernst Junger that does help give you the picture.Schmitt says he was visited by the sinister Baron Evola. Consider the author and recipient and if they thought he was sinister they probably had a point. Evola reminds me a little of Aleister Crowley.His most famous contemporary fan is Steve Bannon . Somehow I don’t take that too seriously! Evola has some great quips.One of my favorites is his comment that his principles are only those that before the French Revolution all well born people considered sane and normal.It has the ring of Talleyrands apocryphal comment- he who has not lived before the revolution does not know the sweetness of life (credit to Bertolucci’s movie).The problem is that isn’t true. Evolas traditionalism is not congruent with say the Catholic reactionary tradition embodied in de Maistre (who is portrayed in Isaiah Berlin’s excellent essay as a pre cursor to fascism).Evola was an atheistic mystic and utopian who saw fascism as insufficiently radical.Some of his observations are spot on and his observations on the USA can be insightful and downright funny. But as a guide to the future , forget it!
    Then there is Francis Parker Yockey. I’d never heard of him , let alone read him.There is no question you could make a great movie about him.A graduate of Georgetown and Notre Dame Law School, Yokey who was fluent in German went to Germany after WW2 to act as a prosecutor in war crime tribunals ( not Nuremberg).One problem here was he was pro Nazi. I have to assume there wasn’t a real thorough vetting process here.Well he didn’t last and goes to Ireland where he writes his magnum opus ,Imperium. Later , he goes to Egypt meets Nasser and collaborated with Nazi exiles to write anti Semitic propaganda.,After the Slansky trial in Czechoslovakia and the anti Semitic purge there, he decided that the Communists were overthrowing Jewish influence and moves to Czechoslovakia.He becomes a collobarateor with East German and Czech intelligence. The FBI gets on his tail and he goes underground slipping into the US. Once there he makes a living as a gigalo who writes pornography and frequents prostitutes.He’s caught and in jail commits suicide by taking a cyanide capsule. Great story !Now I do know who Willis Carto was.He founded the Liberty Lobby .That was an organization that made the JohnBirch Society sound like calm constitutional conservatives. Carto apparently saw Yokey as a hero and prophet. So what did Yokey preach. Well he said he wasn’t overly attached to the word fascism. He preferred Imperialism. Rose mentions National Bolshevism and that’s sure what it sounds like . Yokey was an advocate of an anti Semitic authoritarian socialism. Interesting that he inspired something called the Liberty Lobby.
    Then we turn to Alain Benoist. I remember reading about the French New Right in the late 70s and 80s (as opposed to the New Philosophers- - Levy etc).He was a leading light . Hadn’t read about him in years.He’s dull compared to Yokey but I gather sane.His thinking seems to have shifted over the years and I don’t think I have a good handle on it.He seems to stress an opposition to assimilation and cultural homogenization..
    Finally we have Samuel Francis who I used to read regularly when he was alive.I can’t say I was all that impressed.However,while Rose later in the book eviscerates him , he gives credit where it’s due. Rose argues that Francis was a perceptive expositor of Paretos theory of oligarchy as filtered through James Burnham.Rose succeeds in making Francis more interesting than I ever found him.Although let me add,I find Francis’ concept of anarcho- tyranny, which surprisingly Rose doesn’t mention, a useful analytic tool.
    Rose ends the book with an attack on his five subjects written from a conservative Christian standpoint. That’s less interesting but not necessarily wrong.
    So what’s the point in reading this? Well if nothing else it’s interesting intellectual history. Perhaps more relevant, it should help clarify what is and isn’t fascism. Believe me the old orange man - deficiencies writ large is no Yokey!
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  • RWE
    4.0 out of 5 stars UNDERSTANDING THE ALT-RIGHT
    Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2022
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    I liked Rose's choosing major Alt-right thinkers-a couple of whom I had barely heard-to explore and explain. I recommend this book to anyone who is tempted to dismiss the Alt-right as having no intellectual foundation. I do wish that he had explored non-Christian defenses of Liberalism.
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  • Willard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Positive experience
    Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2022
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    The book was as described, securely packaged, and delivered on time
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