New Culture,New Right isthe first English-language study of the identitarian movements presentlyreshaping the contours of European politics. The study's focus is Alain de Benoist's GRECE (Groupement de Rechercheet d'Etude pour la Civilisation Européenne), which Paul Piccone of Telos describes as the most interestinggroup of continental thinkers since the existentialists of the 1950s and whichelsewhere is recognized as the most formidable school of contemporaryright-wing thought. Made up of veteransfrom various nationalist, traditionalist, far Right, and regionalist movements,the GRECE began as an association of French intellectuals committed torestoring the crumbling cultural foundations of European life and identity. Due to the quality of its publications andits philosophically persuasive reformulation of the Right project, it attractedan immediate audience. By the late1970s it had recruited an impressive array of continental thinkers to itsranks. In Italy, Germany, Belgium, anda number of other European countries, there have since emerged organizationsand publishing concerns either directly linked to the Paris-based GRECE orinvolved in analogous endeavors. As aresult of these diffusions, GRECE-style identitarianism has come to representthe most prominent ideological alternative to the regnant liberalism. The European New Right to which the GRECE gave birthis new not in the modernist sense of being novel, but in the traditionalistsense of reappropriating an origin whose meaningful possibilities remain openfor realization. Never, New Rightistsclaim, has a revolutionary return to their people’s roots been moreurgent. After a half century under theliberal-democratic regimes imposed by the United States in 1945, Europeans nowface extinction as a race and a culture. Against this, their appeal to the most primordial facets of theirpeople’s heritage aims at awakening the spirit of resistance andrenaissance. The result, as documentedin this introduction to its ideas, is one of the most remarkable critiques evermade of the liberal project.