Paul Gottfried | |
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Born | Paul Edward Gottfried November 21, 1941 New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | Yeshiva University (BA) Yale University (MS, PhD) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy American philosophy |
School | Paleoconservatism |
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Doctoral advisor | Herbert Marcuse |
Main interests | Welfare state, pluralism, Romanticism |
Notable ideas | Therapeutic state, movement conservatism, alternative right, white nationalism (denied) |
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Paul Edward Gottfried (born November 21, 1941) is an American paleoconservative political philosopher, historian, and writer.[1][2][3] He is a former Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is editor-in-chief of the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles.[4] He is an associated scholar at the Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank,[5] and the US correspondent of Nouvelle École, a Nouvelle Droite journal.[6]
He helped coin the term paleoconservative in 1986 and alternative right (with Richard Spencer) in 2008.[2][1] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described him as a "far-right thinker".[7] He founded the H.L. Mencken Club, which the SPLC considers a white nationalist group.[7][8] Although noted for working with far-right and alt-right groups and figures, he has said that he does "not want to be in the same camp with white nationalists" or associated with pro-Nazis, "as somebody whose family barely escaped from the Nazis in the '30s".[2][1]