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Metapolitics of the French New Right and its Strategies for the Cultural Hegemony in the 1960s and 1970s

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2026, (54), pp.37~59
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : February 8, 2026
  • Accepted : February 20, 2026
  • Published : February 28, 2026

Shin, Dongkyu 1

1국립창원대학교

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ABSTRACT

The GRECE, which sought to seize cultural hegemony, tried to implement, through metapolitics, not only the dismantling of the humanism values ​​that had been passed down since the French Revolution, influenced by the Enlightenment, but also the formation of a new discourse based on 20th-century science. Through this metapolitics, Alain de Benoit and the GRECE attempted to exert influence over cultural power through the media, rather than directly seizing control of state institutions, thereby proposing a new right-wing strategy for domination. This new far-right group, calling itself the New Right, sought to gain cultural power through counter-cultural influence. They argued that inequality is a value that is more in line with the natural order and fiercely criticized the existing cultural power that has considered equality as a imperative social value.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.