The Populist Moment

The End of Right vs. Left

Alain De Benoist, F Roger Devlin

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English

Middle Europe Books
06 April 2025

Social & political philosophy; Nationalism; Political structures: democracy

""Populism"" is what democracy is called when the people vote for the ""wrong"" things, like Brexit or Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. Since 2015, populisms of both the Right and the Left have been challenging Western liberal democratic elites. Thus we are living in ""the populist moment."" But what does populism mean, and where is it likely to take us?

In The Populist Moment: The End of Right vs. Left, Alain de Benoist argues that populism is not a political ideology like Marxism or liberalism. Nor can it be fundamentally understood in terms of the distinction between Right and Left. Instead, populism is a confrontation between ""the people"" and political ""elites"" that have become estranged from or hostile to the people. At the core of populism is the demand that governments actually reflect the interests and identities of the people they are supposed to serve.

The Populist Moment is a unique contribution to contemporary debates on populism. Scholarly treatments of populism tend to be hostile, while friendly treatments tend to be naïve. Benoist, however, combines down-to-earth populist sympathies with high-level debates in political theory, including extensive discussions of important thinkers like Jean-Claude Michéa, who are little-known outside of the French-speaking world.

By: Alain De Benoist
Translated by: F Roger Devlin
Imprint: Middle Europe Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9781642640458
ISBN 10: 164264045X
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 06 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alain de Benoist (b. 1943) is a political philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of a hundred books and thousands of articles, his recent books in English include Ernst Jünger: Between the Gods & the Titans (Middle Europe Books, 2022) and Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market (Middle Europe Books, 2024). F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D., is the author of Alexandre Kojève and the Outcome of Modern Thought (2004) and Sexual Utopia in Power (2015).

Reviews for The Populist Moment: The End of Right vs. Left

""Alain de Benoist is an author of the highest intellectual and scholarly standards, yet he is also fully independent of the Western world's inbred and complacent academic establishment. Thus his explication of our 'populist moment' is reliable, fascinating, and fearless."" -F. Roger Devlin, author of Sexual Utopia in Power, translator of The Populist Moment