Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried | |
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Gottfried speaking in 2017 | |
| Born | Paul Edward Gottfried November 21, 1941 New York City, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Yeshiva University (BA) Yale University (MS, PhD) |
| Thesis | Catholic Romanticism in Munich, 1826–1834 (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert Marcuse |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy American philosophy |
| School | Paleoconservatism |
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| 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. He is a former Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is editor-in-chief of the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles. He is an associated scholar at the Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the US correspondent of Nouvelle École, a Nouvelle Droite journal.
Gottfried helped coin the term paleoconservative in 1986 and alternative right (with Richard Spencer) in 2008. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described him as a "far-right thinker" and recognizes the H.L. Mencken Club, which he founded, as a white nationalist group. 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".