Thibault Isabel (born 29 April 1978) is a French writer and publisher.

Biography

Thibault Isabel was born in

Roubaix Roubaix ( or ; nl, Robaais; vls, Roboais) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the Nord department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century ...

on 29 April 1978. He obtained a doctorate in

film studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies. ...

from the

Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III The Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III (french: Université Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle) was a French university. Since 1974, the main campus of University of Lille III was located in Villeneuve d'Ascq in eastern Lille, at ''Pont de Bois'' me ...

in 2004 with a dissertation on American cinema from 1981 to 2000. He has been editor-in-chief of ', a journal founded by

Alain de Benoist Alain de Benoist (; ; born 11 December 1943) – also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names – is a French journalist and political philosopher, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite ("New Right"), and ...

and a part of the

French New Right The Nouvelle Droite (; en, "New Right"), sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s. The Nouvelle Droite is at the origin of the wider European New Right (ENR). Var ...

, although Isabel does not consider himself right-wing. He is the editor of the website Linactuelle.fr which he founded in 2018 and participates in

Michel Onfray Michel Onfray (; born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly-prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinke ...

's magazine ''Front Populaire'', launched in 2020. With Onfray, Isabel shares an interest in the

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

thinker

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (, , ; 15 January 1809, Besançon – 19 January 1865, Paris) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979) 959 "The Three Anticapitalistic Movements". ''European Socia ...

, about whom he has written a book, ''Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. L'anarchie sans le désordre'' (2017, ). Like Benoist, he is a

neopagan Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, is a term for a religion or family of religions influenced by the various historical pre-Christian beliefs of pre-modern peoples in Europe and adjacent areas of North Afric ...

, influenced by

Max Weber Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (; ; 21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society. His ideas profo ...

's conception of modern

polytheism Polytheism is the belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religious sects and rituals. Polytheism is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the ...

and the non- romantic strain of pagan revivalism represented by

Louis Ménard Louis-Nicolas Ménard (19 October 1822 – 9 February 1901) was a French man of letters also known for his early discoveries on collodion. Biography He was born in Paris. His versatile genius occupied itself in turn with chemistry, poetry, paint ...

. He has written a book about pagan philosophy, ''Manuel de sagesse païenne'' (2020, ). There, he writes that thinkers like

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

and

Confucius Confucius ( ; zh, s=, p=Kǒng Fūzǐ, "Master Kǒng"; or commonly zh, s=, p=Kǒngzǐ, labels=no; – ) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. C ...

did not derive their morals from divine revelations, but from practical wisdom from the attempts to create harmony, and stresses that ancient morality was based on the recognition of limits. He views pagan thought as the viable way for contemporary people to discover the morals that are needed in order for a society to produce something of value, and also ties it in with environmental concerns. In 2021 he published an interview book with the philosopher

Dany-Robert Dufour Dany-Robert Dufour (born in 1947) is a French philosopher, professor of educational sciences at the university Paris-VIII. He teaches regularly abroad, particularly in Latin America. His main focus is symbolic processes (specially ''désymbolis ...

Selected publications

* ''La fin de siècle du cinéma américain 1981–2000'', La Méduse 2006 * ''Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. L'anarchie sans le désordre'', 2017 * ''Manuel de sagesse païenne'', Le Passeur 2020 * ''Fils d'anar et philosophe'' (interviews with

), R&N 2021

References

External links

Personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Isabel, Thibault 1978 births Living people 21st-century French male writers 21st-century French non-fiction writers French magazine publishers (people) French modern pagans Modern pagan writers New Right (Europe) People from Roubaix

Biography

Selected publications

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