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This is the first part of excerpts from Alain de Benoist’s timeless essay ‘The Religion of Human Rights’, published in 1988, in which he explores the relationship between individual freedoms and collective identity.

Regarding the abstract rights of a person, we know nothing — and can know nothing. The ‘universal’ human does not exist.

What does exist, however, is a zoological unity of the human species; strictly speaking, the human species constitutes ‘humanity’. Such a concept has a purely biological meaning. We do not believe, however, that humans can determine their essence based on their biological characteristics. We are rather of the opinion that what makes humans specifically human, i.e., what grounds and constitutes humans as humans, emerges from…

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Translated by Constantin von Hoffmeister

Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist is the leading thinker of the European ‘New Right’ movement, a school of political thought founded in France in 1968 with the establishment of GRECE (Research and Study Group for European Civilisation). To this day he remains its primary representative, even while rejecting the label ‘New Right’ for himself. An ethnopluralist defender of cultural uniqueness and integrity, he has argued for the right of Europeans to retain their identity in the face of multiculturalism, and he has opposed immigration, while still preferring the preservation of native cultures over the forced assimilation of immigrant groups.

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