Reclaiming European Identity

by Guillaume Faye

Guillaume Faye explores how Europeans can overcome challenges like racial diversity, cultural erosion, and techno-economic upheaval by embracing a dynamic new tradition, thereby reclaiming their identity and preserving humanity’s highest values.

This is the sixteenth and last part of Guillaume Faye’s essay ‘The New Ideological Challenges’, published in 1988. Also read parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen.

The three major challenges to European identity today, which jeopardise its historical continuity, are racial diversity, the erosion of its own cultures and traditions, and the upheaval caused by techno-economic civilisation, or the ‘technocosmos’. These challenges, posing both internal dissolution and external homogenisation threats, are not insurmountable.