Modernity, Overmodernity and Conservative Revolution

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Abstract

[In Belarusian]

The article is an analytic reflection on doctrine of the New
Right (Nouvelle Droite) as it is presented in works of its Belarusian
followers. The author mainly concentrates on the critique
of modernity by New Rightists and exposes overuse of figurative
language to denigrate liberalism and evoke a feeling of moral
catastrophe. Although the claim about ideological affinity of the
New Right with Fascism is rather doubtful, there are – according
to the author – solid reasons to treat it as a doctrine of the «closed
society». Organicism, essentialism, ethnomysticism, soteriologic
vision, sacralization of power – those elements, explicitly present
in political philosophy of the Nouvelle Droite, witness about a
tribalistic and anti-open-society character of this movement.