Guillaume Faye, “Finishing with Western Civilisation” (1980)

My translation of Faye’s “Pour en finir avec la civilisation occidentale,” Éléments 34 (1980). This text distinguishes and advocates Europe (or Hesperia) over-against “the Western system.” The nouvelle droite-period Faye (before 1987), whom we see at work here, is quite different from the post-hiatus Faye (1998–2019) known to the Anglophone world. Note the apparently positive assessment of political Islam (p. 5) and the opposition to the identitarianism with which he came to be associated (pp. 6–7).

French original:

http://www.archiveseroe.eu/occident-a49054848

PDF of this translation:

https://www.academia.edu/42174979/Guillaume_Faye_Finishing_with_Western_Civilisation_1980_

Related texts on rival strains in European thought and deed:

https://ferguscullen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-clash-of-world-conceptions.html (Faye)

https://ferguscullen.blogspot.com/2020/01/giorgio-locchi-nietzsches-rescuers-1972.html (Giorgio Locchi)

Guillaume Faye, “The Clash of World-conceptions” (1993)

My translation of Guillaume Faye’s “Le choc des conceptions du monde,” Vouloir 97–100 (January–March 1993). Faye was a political scientist associated for a time with Alain de Benoist and the semi-legendary nouvelle droite. As this interesting essay shows, Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s rereadings of the philosophical tradition made a great impression on his thought.

The original French text is available at Archives EROE:

http://www.archiveseroe.eu/hellade-a48655302

A PDF of this version is available here:

https://www.academia.edu/41616916/The_Clash_of_World-conceptions