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Enemy of the Disaster: Selected Political Writings of Renaud Camus Paperback – October 13, 2023

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Enemy of the Disaster is the first authorized translation to appear in English of Renaud Camus' political writings and includes his notorious 2010 speech, "The Great Replacement." Though forty-two years have passed since his work was last translated into English, Camus is endlessly and irresponsibly discussed in the media, his vast and complex oeuvre reduced to a single phrase devoid of all context. In the English-speaking world, at least, he is the opposite of an author; he is a floating signifier, a rumor, an element in someone else's narrative.

This volume aims to change that. Spanning the years 2007-2017, its ten chapters present a very different Camus, one freed from the opportunistic glosses of “friend” and foe alike. Instead of a conspiracy theorist, the reader discovers a committed opponent of conspiratorial thinking of all kinds. Instead of a proponent of rightwing terrorism, one discovers the founder of a political party devoted to the promotion of civic peace. Above all, one discovers in Camus a man of culture, of the high European culture that he sees everywhere in retreat amid a generalized debasement of humanity.

The book opens with a critical Introduction by its editor, Professor Louis Betty of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Betty seeks to free Camus from the various polemical misrepresentations to which he has been subjected in order to situate him in the context of recent French debates concerning immigration and identity, debates that have only become more intense since Camus first entered the fray. Each chapter is thoroughly annotated to help non-French readers better navigate what might be unfamiliar references.

Enemy of the Disaster will prove a precious resource to any serious student of contemporary France. The issues it addresses, however - issues, not just of immigration and identity, but of culture, education, and the future of humanity itself - resonate well beyond the French context. These are issues with which we all, sooner or later, will need to reckon. By showing us what we have so blithely abandoned in our mad embrace of an increasingly posthuman future, Renaud Camus helps us do just that.

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    October 13, 2023
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  • Chris
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Theory of Replacement
    Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024
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    The author, a prolific French writer, sets forth his thoughts on the "Great Replacement" in a series of essays and speeches. The author's work has become extremely controversial in recent years, as a number of mass murderers have cited the "Great Replacement" in their manifestos. But the author is not a sputtering ideologue but a careful thinker and outstanding prose stylist. Further, the author explicitly rejects anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, condemns Nazi atrocities, celebrates the French Resistance and Charles de Gaulle, praises France's historical ability to welcome and assimilate individuals (not peoples) who want to assimilate into France, and says that he cannot support Jean-Marie Le Pen.

    The author explicitly sets forth two causes of the Great Replacement (i.e., the replacement of European peoples in Europe by non-Europeans) and, less explicitly, sets forth a third cause.

    First, is "deculturation". The author defines culture to mean "high culture". And culture, the author argues, is based on "discrimination" -- that is, it is based on determining that some things are better or worse than others. Further, it is based on "heredity" -- that is, culture is passed down through generations. Third, culture can only be fully enjoyed by a small subset of the population, and is consequently elitist. But discrimination, heredity, and elitism are opposed by "hyper democracy", which the author defines as the extension of democracy into the non-political realm. Hyper democracy is radically egalitarian and consequently rejects discrimination, heredity, and elitism, and therefore opposes culture. Consequently, culture has faded away in modern Europe and left the European peoples without a sense of their past or their ancestors' achievements.

    Second, is "the second career of Adolf Hitler". The horrific crimes of Nazi Germany resulted in Europeans turning away from everything the Nazis represented: race, of course, but also related concepts such as ethnicity, tradition, and homeland. But the rest of the world is not so horrified by Hitler -- he was not part of their history, after all -- and this has created a situation of unilateral disarmament: the Europeans have rejected the concepts of race, ethnicity, tradition, and homeland, but other peoples have not, and those people are immigration to Europe in mass numbers.

    Third -- and less explicitly -- the author suggests that the Great Replacement is caused by mass production. Mass production requires standardization, standardization logically means replaceability, and replaceability of objects ultimately leads to the replacement of people.
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  • Monica Kumar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, powerful, important.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2024
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    Timely, if not too late. The West is on a suicidal altruism death spiral. This has to change.
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  • Ellen Mero
    5.0 out of 5 stars Genocide by Substitution? A Prophetic Warning
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2023
    Louie Betty’s masterly translated translation from the French introduces the English-speaking world to Renaud Camus’s controversial—perhaps I should say earth-shaking—worldview. He is a Frenchman who loves his country—its culture, its legal system, its religion, its entire way of being in the world—but sees it being overrun by unchecked immigration. One way to confront this fact is to do nothing, even to endorse it. In his essay “The Apartment,” Camus asks what gives a prosperous French family of two or three the moral right to live in their spacious Parisian apartment while a family of seventeen impoverished African immigrants squat on the street below. Camus says they have every right. To give it up is to acquiesce in what he calls “genocide by substitution” or “the great replacement.” And it’s happening all over France today.

    Camus’s political writings are a clarion call to wake up the threat. He points out that the immigrants, most of them Muslim, come not to enjoy the French way of life but to replace it with their own. They are not your typical immigrants desiring assimilation, but invaders. History tells of many such replacements, but never one that happened without a fight. Camus sees the open-armed liberal establishment governing France today under Macron as standing idly by hoping that somehow, given enough time, these unassimilable immigrants will want to be French. He watches in horror as entire districts frighten the natives into flight from their ancestral homes while the police are too frightened to intervene.

    Some on the left paint Camus as a paranoid far-right conspiracy theorist. Professor Betty wants to set the record straight. He sees Camus as a prophetic patriot determined to save France, and eventually the rest of Europe, from inundation by an alien culture that reproduces at a frighteningly irresponsible rate.

    Is Camus correct? Do sheer numbers justify the great replacement? What will France look like in fifty years? These are important questions for us to consider. Betty’s book will help you decide.
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  • Cindy Dietz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2023
    Great book. We were told Camus was a racist, an antisemite, a conspiracy theorist. But to actually read him is to discover he’s none of these things. He’s simply a man - a very cultured man - aghast at the death of his people.
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  • Nicole Petty
    5.0 out of 5 stars Long overdue
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2023
    These translations are long overdue. Camus is an indispensable witness to our times. He is also a great stylist. This book, like nothing else by him in English, captures this distinctive voice.
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  • Yvonne Patten Law
    4.0 out of 5 stars For those who want to read more.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2024
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    That may sound ambiguous but I don’t believe this is for the casual reader. If you have read some French philosophers then his writings will come easier. It helped me. That said I found him fascinating but understand why he is great trouble for the “establishment” which is intent on distorting his views.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars You get a better class of provocateur with the French :)
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2024
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    Renaud Camus' culture is as extensive as it is refined, qualities that are scarcely found (or maybe not allowed) in contemporary writing anymore; his intellectual courage and curiosity and breadth of knowledge are rare and remarkable traits; M.Camus is above all an intellectually gifted and culturally refined writer.

    This excellent anthology of his essays requires both reflection and contemplation because, like all great writing, it is always intellectually, and often emotionally, challenging. And best of all the challenges are worth it, for they leave one with a greater understanding and appreciation of the social, historical and experiential landscapes of our time.

    Because Renaud Camus is a writer who dares to seek out the blind spots of our society and of all societies, our no man’s lands, our forbidden zones, our Bermuda Triangles and reveal them to thus in a just and truthful way. And none of this passion is lost in this translation.
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  • w hughes
    3.0 out of 5 stars French intellectualism
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2024
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    This is not a bad book but really its a lot of pages to convey a simple message: of course we are being made strangers in our own land by the influx of foreigners, who have no wish to participate in our ways and customs and traditions. What would have been more useful is some analysis of why the political class in most western countries are such fans of immigration; why, at some point, has not the penny dropped that even if - big 'if' - immigration does generate 'growth', is a bit more growth a good return for destroying the nature of a country?
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