Fascism, Liberalism and Europeanism in the Political Thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce

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This book explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French intellectuals, journalists and political writers who, from 1930 to the mid-1950s, moved between liberalism, fascism and Europeanism. Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual currents have only received scant attention. This book explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French intellectuals, journalists and political writers who, from 1930 to the mid-1950s, moved between liberalism, fascism and Europeanism. Daniel Knegt argues that their longing for a united Europe was the driving force behind this ideological transformation-and that we can see in their thought the earliest stages of what would become neoliberalism.

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Preface, List of Abbreviations Introduction: Fascism in France and Beyond Intellectual Fascism? Between Immunity and Pan-Fascism New Perspectives Europeanism, Fascism and Neoliberalism Chapter 1: ‘En Faisant l’Europe’: Internationalism and the Fascist Drift ‘La Nouvelle Génération Européenne’: Generation Politics in 1920s France Reconciliation with Germany at all Costs Metaphysical Europeanism Chapter 2: Planning, Fascism and the State: 1930-1939 From Liberalism to ‘l’Économie Dirigée’ A National and Social Revolution Party Intellectuals at the Service of Fascism Chapter 3: Facing a Fascist Europe: 1939-1943 Defeat and Readjustment Tracing the Origins of Defeat ‘On the Threshold of a New World’ New Rulers, Old Acquaintances Collaboration and Attentisme Chapter 4: A European Revolution? Liberation and the Post-war Extreme Right Liberation and Persecution Exile and Exclusion ‘Beyond Nazism’: Monarchism and the Heritage of Fascism Reinventing the Extreme Right Europeanism, Federalism and the Reconfiguration of the Extreme Right Chapter 5: Europeanism, Neoliberalism and the Cold War On Private Life and Facial Hair On Power: Pessimism, Aristocracy and the Distrust of Democracy A Mountain in Switzerland: Neoliberalism and the Mont Pèlerin Society ‘This General Feeling of Open Conspiracy’ Conclusion: From the Sohlberg to Mont Pèlerin, Bibliography, Index.