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Thibault Isabel (born 29 April 1978) is a French writer and publisher.
Thibault Isabel (born 29 April 1978) is a French writer and publisher.
Biography
Thibault Isabel was born inRoubaix
Roubaix ( , ; ; ; ) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, depar ...
on 29 April 1978. He obtained a doctorate in film studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various film theory, theoretical, history of film, historical, and film criticism, critical approaches to film, cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media stud ...
from the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III
The Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III () was a French university. Since 1974, the main campus of University of Lille III was located in Villeneuve d'Ascq in eastern Lille, at ''Pont de Bois'' metro station, and includes 21,000 students.
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in 2004 with a dissertation on American cinema from 1981 to 2000. He has been editor-in-chief of ', a journal founded by Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist ( ; ; born 11 December 1943), also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names, is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the ''Nouvelle Droite'' (France's European Ne ...
and a part of the French New Right
The ''Nouvelle Droite'' (, ), sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s. The ''Nouvelle Droite'' is the origin of the wider European New Right (ENR). Various schola ...
, although Isabel does not consider himself right-wing. He is the editor of the website Linactuelle.fr which he founded in 2018 and participates in Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray (; born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such think ...
's magazine ''Front Populaire'', launched in 2020.
With Onfray, Isabel shares an interest in the anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...
thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (, ; ; 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person to ca ...
, about whom he has written a book, ''Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. L'anarchie sans le désordre'' (2017, ). Like Benoist, he is a neopagan
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Despite some common simila ...
, influenced by Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (; ; 21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German Sociology, sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economy, political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sc ...
's conception of modern polytheism
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god. According to Oxford Reference, it is not easy to count gods, and so not always obvious whether an apparently polytheistic religion, such as Chinese folk religions, is really so, or whet ...
and the non- romantic strain of pagan revivalism represented by Louis Ménard
Louis-Nicolas Ménard (; 19 October 1822 – 9 February 1901) was a French man of letters also known for his early discoveries on collodion.
Biography
He was born in Paris. His versatile genius occupied itself in turn with chemistry, poetry, pai ...
. He has written a book about pagan philosophy, ''Manuel de sagesse païenne'' (2020, ). There, he writes that thinkers like Aristotle
Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...
and Confucius
Confucius (; pinyin: ; ; ), born Kong Qiu (), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere originates in the phil ...
did not derive their morals from divine revelations, but from practical wisdom from the attempts to create harmony, and stresses that ancient morality was based on the recognition of limits. He views pagan thought as the viable way for contemporary people to discover the morals that are needed in order for a society to produce something of value, and also ties it in with environmental concerns. In 2021 he published an interview book with the philosopher Dany-Robert Dufour.
Selected publications
* ''La fin de siècle du cinéma américain 1981–2000'', La Méduse 2006 * ''Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. L'anarchie sans le désordre'', 2017 * ''Manuel de sagesse païenne'', Le Passeur 2020 * ''Fils d'anar et philosophe'' (interviews with Dany-Robert Dufour), R&N 2021References
Further reading
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Isabel, Thibault 1978 births Living people 21st-century French male writers 21st-century French non-fiction writers Far-right modern pagans French magazine publishers (people) French modern pagans Modern pagan writers New Right (Europe) People from Roubaix