Paul Gottfried

Paul Gottfried
Gottfried speaking in 2017
Born
Paul Edward Gottfried

(1941-11-21) November 21, 1941 (age 82)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materYeshiva University (BA)
Yale University (MS, PhD)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
American philosophy
SchoolPaleoconservatism
Institutions
ThesisCatholic Romanticism in Munich, 1826–1834 (1968)
Doctoral advisorHerbert Marcuse
Main interests
Welfare state, pluralism, Romanticism
Notable ideas
Therapeutic state, movement conservatism, alternative right, white nationalism (denied)
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Paul Edward Gottfried (born November 21, 1941) is an American paleoconservative political philosopher, historian, and writer.[1][2][3] He is a former Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is editor-in-chief of the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles.[4] He is an associated scholar at the Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank,[5] and the US correspondent of Nouvelle École, a Nouvelle Droite journal.[6]

He is often considered the foremost reactionary critic of the Republican Party in general and neoconservatism in particular.[7][8]

Gottfried helped coin the term paleoconservative in 1986 and alternative right (with Richard Spencer) in 2008.[2][1] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described him as a "far-right thinker".[9] He founded the H.L. Mencken Club, which the SPLC considers a white nationalist group.[9][10] Although noted for working with far-right and alt-right groups and figures, he has said that he does "not want to be in the same camp with white nationalists" or associated with pro-Nazis, "as somebody whose family barely escaped from the Nazis in the '30s".[2][1] He considers himself a "right-wing pluralist."[11]

  1. ^ a b c Jacob, Siegel (November 30, 2016). "Paul Gottfried, the Jewish Godfather of the 'Alt-Right'". Tablet Magazine. Nextbook, Inc. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Meet the Jewish 'Paleoconservative' Who Coined The Term 'Alternative Right'". The Forward. August 29, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Drolet, Jean-Francois; Williams, Michael C (2022). "From critique to reaction: The new right, critical theory and international relations". Journal of International Political Theory. 18 (1): 27. doi:10.1177/17550882211020409. ISSN 1755-0882. S2CID 236406021.
  4. ^ "Paul Gottfried". Chronicles Magazine.
  5. ^ "Paul Gottfried". Mises Institute. June 20, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
  6. ^ François, Stéphane (2018). "Réflexions sur le paganisme d'extrême droite". Social Compass. 65 (2): 275. doi:10.1177/0037768618768439. ISSN 0037-7686. S2CID 150142148.
  7. ^ Bartee, Seth. (2019). "Paul Gottfried and Paleoconservatism." In: Key Thinkers of the Radical Right. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190877583.003.0007. "He became the foremost critic of the Republican Party and neoconservatism."
  8. ^ Gottfried, Paul (1991). Populism vs. Neoconservatism. Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 90:184.
  9. ^ a b Piggott, Stephen (November 4, 2016). "White Nationalists to Gather in Baltimore for the Ninth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  10. ^ "Prominent Racists Attend Inaugural H.L. Mencken Club Gathering". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  11. ^ Bartee, Seth. (2019). "Paul Gottfried and Paleoconservatism." In: Key Thinkers of the Radical Right. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190877583.003.0007. "Since 2008 Gottfried has adopted the label of right-wing pluralist and allows most conservative dissidents into his organization..."

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