Resistere all’imperversare del moderno: La Nouvelle Droite e il progetto di rinascita europea

This article explores the intellectual origins of the French Nouvelle Droite by tracing its foundational narratives of disorientation, crisis, and the perceived end of modernity. Central to this framework is the symbolic use of military defeat, often experienced biographically by key figures, as a metaphor for civilizational decline. From its inception, the movement has interpreted the present as a time of exhaustion and loss of values. The article asks whether this diagnosis of decline might serve a strategic function – namely, to establish a cultural and political dialectic through the formulation of a project for a European revanche.