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Sex and Deviance
Sex and Deviance is at once a raging critique of the values underpinning contemporary Western societies and a down-to-earth, pragmatic vision of the future. Guillaume Faye is meticulous in his analysis of the points at which Western societies have deviated from their golden mean, thus having triggered the tidal wave of social ills that they are facing and can expect to face. Faye identifies at the centre of this vortex the matter of sex and sexuality, and with this proffers an answer to the perennial question: What is the glue that holds societies together?
Faye's penetrating assault on the specious thinking of ideologues is certain to rattle the convictions of those from across the spectrum. Much more than just a socio-political exposition, this book is an invitation to shed old ways of thinking and to begin new, hard-headed discussion over the most pertinent issues of this century.
Guillaume Faye was one of the principal members of the famed French New Right organisation GRECE in the 1970s and '80s. After departing in 1986 due to his disagreement with its strategy, he had a successful career on French television and radio before returning to the stage of political philosophy as a powerful alternative voice with the publication of Archeofuturism. Since then he has continued to challenge the status quo within the Right in his writings, earning him both the admiration and disdain of his colleagues.
Faye's penetrating assault on the specious thinking of ideologues is certain to rattle the convictions of those from across the spectrum. Much more than just a socio-political exposition, this book is an invitation to shed old ways of thinking and to begin new, hard-headed discussion over the most pertinent issues of this century.
Guillaume Faye was one of the principal members of the famed French New Right organisation GRECE in the 1970s and '80s. After departing in 1986 due to his disagreement with its strategy, he had a successful career on French television and radio before returning to the stage of political philosophy as a powerful alternative voice with the publication of Archeofuturism. Since then he has continued to challenge the status quo within the Right in his writings, earning him both the admiration and disdain of his colleagues.
290 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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Guillaume Faye
34 books107 followersFrench political scientist, writer and journalist.
Faye was on of the main theorists of the French movement the "Nouvelle Droite". He was a member of Alain de Benoist's organisation GRECE until he parted from the organisation in 1986.
In 1987 he withdrew from politics and worked as a DJ for the radiostation "Skyrock"
In 1998 he re-entered politics with a book comprising diverse essays.
Faye was on of the main theorists of the French movement the "Nouvelle Droite". He was a member of Alain de Benoist's organisation GRECE until he parted from the organisation in 1986.
In 1987 he withdrew from politics and worked as a DJ for the radiostation "Skyrock"
In 1998 he re-entered politics with a book comprising diverse essays.
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November 22, 2016
"What I express has no truth-value and comes simply from my own opinion and intuition."- Guillaume Faye, "Sex and Deviance" page 255
This work is translated from the French, so maybe something is lost in translation with the above-cited quote. Then again, maybe it was a correctly translated moment of candor by Faye, a capstone to a scattershot outing.
I keep an open mind, and read everything from the far-right ("Counter-Currents") to the far-left ("Jacobin") publications. The reactionary nature of Faye's ideas isn't what is off-putting. In fact, Faye's thought is heterogeneous enough that even though he would (rightly) be classified as a creature of the right, he has enough problems with Christianity to make him unpalatable to most American conservatives (which might not be a bad thing).
The really unforgivable sin of this book is its scattershot nature, how one assertion will be given a paragraph-long footnote, and the next two or three bold assertions just seem to appear ex nihilo, and then lead to other tangents that barely get explored. There are philosophers who can unify many disparate threads to create a substantial web, but Faye isn't one of them, or at least he doesn't prove himself up to the challenge in this outing. He comes across as a more erudite version of a cantankerous uncle at a Thanksgiving party, who drunkenly tries to explain to you why, when we all die, there will be a different afterlife for different races. His thoughts on feminism and Islam are interesting, but not well-developed or well-integrated into the whole.
His thoughts on biological warfare are laughable (his rule, that if something is made, it will be used, doesn't bear closer scrutiny, else we'd all be vaporized or currently covered in buboes). Anything he says about posthumanism/transhumanism doesn't go much further than what you would expect an eager undergrad to recite after reading a couple of Wikipedia entries and following a hyperlink or two.
I'm still eager to check out some of Faye's other works, which I've heard good things about, such as "The Colonization of Europe" and "Convergence of Catastrophes" but this one was a wash for me. Still, I should add it is better than what got produced by the French postmodern philosophers on the approved list, like Deleuze, Lacan, Baudrillard, and the rest of the spinning cogs in the (unfortunately) still-operational nonsense machine, as I think Roger Scruton once dubbed it. Not recommended.
This work is translated from the French, so maybe something is lost in translation with the above-cited quote. Then again, maybe it was a correctly translated moment of candor by Faye, a capstone to a scattershot outing.
I keep an open mind, and read everything from the far-right ("Counter-Currents") to the far-left ("Jacobin") publications. The reactionary nature of Faye's ideas isn't what is off-putting. In fact, Faye's thought is heterogeneous enough that even though he would (rightly) be classified as a creature of the right, he has enough problems with Christianity to make him unpalatable to most American conservatives (which might not be a bad thing).
The really unforgivable sin of this book is its scattershot nature, how one assertion will be given a paragraph-long footnote, and the next two or three bold assertions just seem to appear ex nihilo, and then lead to other tangents that barely get explored. There are philosophers who can unify many disparate threads to create a substantial web, but Faye isn't one of them, or at least he doesn't prove himself up to the challenge in this outing. He comes across as a more erudite version of a cantankerous uncle at a Thanksgiving party, who drunkenly tries to explain to you why, when we all die, there will be a different afterlife for different races. His thoughts on feminism and Islam are interesting, but not well-developed or well-integrated into the whole.
His thoughts on biological warfare are laughable (his rule, that if something is made, it will be used, doesn't bear closer scrutiny, else we'd all be vaporized or currently covered in buboes). Anything he says about posthumanism/transhumanism doesn't go much further than what you would expect an eager undergrad to recite after reading a couple of Wikipedia entries and following a hyperlink or two.
I'm still eager to check out some of Faye's other works, which I've heard good things about, such as "The Colonization of Europe" and "Convergence of Catastrophes" but this one was a wash for me. Still, I should add it is better than what got produced by the French postmodern philosophers on the approved list, like Deleuze, Lacan, Baudrillard, and the rest of the spinning cogs in the (unfortunately) still-operational nonsense machine, as I think Roger Scruton once dubbed it. Not recommended.
July 8, 2017
Conservative refutation
While Faye differs from many Christians and Americans on the idea of prostitution, he refutes liberal ideas on sexuality without simply invoking the Bible. Instead, he uses harm and what can and cannot be fixed through intervention.
While Faye differs from many Christians and Americans on the idea of prostitution, he refutes liberal ideas on sexuality without simply invoking the Bible. Instead, he uses harm and what can and cannot be fixed through intervention.
September 15, 2024
A book of polemic arguments about the way that sexual attitudes have changed in France prior to and after the social revolution of 1968, in part due to the influence of the far-left and in other part due to the influence immigration from North Africa and the Middle East has had on France as a whole.
Similar to his other works, Faye is very critical of immigration and socially libertine attitudes towards sex, but he does acknowledge that the reality of sexual unions throughout French history was far from puritanical in a manner that makes Faye surprisingly progressive in his attitude towards sex by comparison to most people on the right.
Similar to his other works, Faye is very critical of immigration and socially libertine attitudes towards sex, but he does acknowledge that the reality of sexual unions throughout French history was far from puritanical in a manner that makes Faye surprisingly progressive in his attitude towards sex by comparison to most people on the right.
September 24, 2023
French radical right (value-free assertion) thinker Guillaume Faye's work on sex (as in gender) and sexuality. I learned a lot.
There were some passages that expressed ideas that I feel are fairly basic, but I just skipped those and moved onto the next heading.
Recommend.
There were some passages that expressed ideas that I feel are fairly basic, but I just skipped those and moved onto the next heading.
Recommend.
June 15, 2018
Recycled ideas smashed together in a book that exploits Christianity and mocks the divine.
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