Since its inception, America has laid claim to a liberal democratic style of government with various well-known philosophical tenets. Yet the underlying beliefs or political philosophy of one of the movements that opposes liberal democratic forms of governmentthe alt-rightare relatively unknown.



The Philosophical Foundation of Alt-Right Politics and Ressentiment is a timely book that analyses how the principles of current American politics have developed. William Remley asserts that the philosophy of Traditionalism is central to the alt-rights understanding of itself and explores the perceived threat to social status that seems to have propelled the movement to its prominent place in American politics. Remley uses Social Dominance Theory and the philosophical work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche to look at how group formation and hierarchies have given rise to authoritarian leadership and how a tendency that can be best described and explained through Nietzsches concept ofressentiment led to the anti-foreign sentiment that rules American politics today.

William Remley is Lecturer in Philosophy at Saint Peter's University, Jersey City, New Jersey.

Introduction / Part I: The Philosophical Foundation for Alt-Right Politics / 1. René Guénon and Traditionalist Philosophy / 2. Guénon and Perennialism / 3. Julius Evolas Traditionalism / Part II: Social Dominance Theory and Sartre / 4. General Outline of Social Dominance Theory (SDT) / 5. Psychology of Group Dominance and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) / 6. Group Formation, Hierarchy, and Human Freedom in SartresCritique of Dialectical Reason/Part III:Ressentiment/7. Nietzsches Theory ofRessentiment/8. Sartres Theory of Racism Based onRessentiment / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index