E. Christian Kopff (born 22 November 1946, Brooklyn, New York) is Associate Professor of

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and Associate Director of the Honors Program at the

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, where he has taught since 1973. He is a Fellow of the

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and has been awarded grants from the

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and the CU Committee on Research. He has been a contributor to

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publications.

Academics

Kopff studied at

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before attending

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, from which he received his undergraduate diploma ''

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''. His doctoral degree in Classics was awarded by the

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Views

Kopff was described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2008 as one of the "notable academic racists" leading the H.L. Mencken Club, of which he was vice president. He has contributed to ''

The Occidental Quarterly ''The Occidental Quarterly'' is an American white nationalist magazine published by the Charles Martel Society. Its stated purpose is to defend "the cultural, ethnic, and racial interests of Western European peoples" and examine "contemporary poli ...

,'' described by the SPLC as a far-right race journal, and ''

Social Contract In moral and political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships betw ...

'', an anti-immigrant publication. He has been described as a

paleoconservative Paleoconservatism is a political philosophy and variety of conservatism in the United States stressing American nationalism, Christian ethics, regionalism, and traditionalist conservatism. Paleoconservatism's concerns overlap with those of the ...

, and as such he has cited religious and cultural grounds for supporting

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, and described modern American society as a "leftist hegemony" in a piece for a white nationalist publication encouraging "members of the American Alternative Right" to read the works of the Italian

philosopher

Julius Evola Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, esotericist, and radical-right ideologue. Evola regarded his values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic, and defiantly ...

prior to embarking on his own translation of two of Evola's works on Italian Fascism and Nazism.

Selected publications

Author

* * * * later reprinted as ''Julius Evola, an Introduction''

Translator

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References

External links

Dr. Christian E. Kopff on "Classical Greek Philosophy and American Democratic Thought"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kopff, E. Christian 1946 births Living people American translators Classical scholars of the University of Colorado University of Colorado Boulder faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Writers from Brooklyn