Jean-Pierre Faye

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Faye in 2002

Jean-Pierre Faye (born 19 July 1925) is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry.

Life and career

Faye was born in

totalitarian states and ideologies. Faye is credited with creating the horseshoe theory.[2][3][4]

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References

  1. ^ "[Faye] a été plusieurs années durant membre de notre comité de rédaction, exactement du no. 14 (été 1963) au no. 31 (automne 1967)". cf. Tel Quel Nr. 43 (Herbst 1970) S. 89
  2. ^ Encel, Frédéric; Thual, François (13 November 2004). "United States-Israel: A friendship that needs to be demystified". Le Figaro. Paris. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2009. Jean-Pierre Faye's famous horseshoe theory (according to which extremes meet) finds verification here more than in other places, and the two states of delirium often mingle and meet, unfortunately spreading beyond these extremist circles. But contrary to the legend deliberately maintained and/or the commonplace believed in good faith, Israel and the United States have not always been allies; on several occasions, their relations have even been strained.
  3. . Retrieved 12 July 2023. A commonly received idea, one strengthened by the post-war debates about the nature of totalitarianism, is that 'extremes meet.' Rather than a straight line between the Left and Right poles, the political spectrum would look more like a circle, or a 'horseshoe,' a metaphor the philosopher Jean-Pierre Faye used to describe the position of German parties in 1932, from the Nazis to the Communists.
  4. ^ Pavlopoulos, Vassilis (20 March 2014). "Politics, Economics, and the Far Right in Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective" (PDF). The Challenge of the Extreme Right in Europe: Past, Present, Future. London: Birkbeck, University of London. p. 16. Retrieved 12 July 2023. The so-called centrist/extremist or horseshoe theory points to notorious similarities between the two extremes of the political spectrum (e.g., authoritarianism). It remains alive though many sociologists consider it to have been thoroughly discredited (Berlet & Lyons, 2000). Furthermore, the ideological profiles of the two political poles have been found to differ considerably (Pavlopoulos, 2013). The centrist/extremist hypothesis narrows civic political debate and undermines progressive organizing. Matching the neo-Nazi with the radical left leads to the legitimization of far-right ideology and practices.

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