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8.2 ORDRE NOUVEAU AND PERSONNALISME
L'ORDRE NOUVEAU was founded by ARNAUD DANDIEU,
associate of GEORGES BATAILLE at the Biblioteque Nationale, and by
ROBERT ARON who worked at Gallimard publications. DENIS DE
ROUGEMONT, ALEXANDER MARC LIPIANSKY, and ROBERT
ARON were also the founding members of ORDRE NOUVEAU and of
ESPRIT review led by EMMANUEL MOUNIER.
DENIS HOLLIER, author of GEORGE BATAILLE'S "COLLEGE de
SOCIOLOGY," wrote that none of the College members were members of
ORDRE NOUVEAU, despite close affinities. For instance, ROGER
CALLOIS wrote articles in the review ORDRE NOUVEAU, but was not
part of the movement. The ORDRE NOUVEAU finally stopped publishing
in 1938, having lost its verve with the ascension of the Front Popular of
LEON BLUM.
ROBERT ARON was elected to the Academie francaise in 1974.
During the war, the Germans and the Spanish arrested him. He later went to
Algier where he became part of GENERAL GIRAUD'S synarchist transition
and of the CHARLES DE GAULLE government. ARON was one of the
heads of the "Movement Federaliste Francais." He wrote various histories,
{Histoire de Vichy}, {Histoire de la Liberation} and {Histoire de
l'Epuration}. He also wrote books on the history of religion. His {Les annees
obscures de Jesus}, was translated into various languages including English.
He wrote with DANDIEU: {Decadence de la nation francaise} (1931), {Le
Cancer Americain} (1931), {La revolution necessaire} (1934). He died in
1975.
With DANDIEU, who died at the premature age of 36, ARON
founded the movement and the review L'ORDRE NOUVEAU in 1933.
DANDIEU launched the PERSONALIST philosophy in France as a
NIETZSCHEAN and FEDERALIST movement, in 1931. This
PERSONALIST philosophy was then adapted to a Catholic and
communitarian (or communal) version by EMMANUEL MOUNIER of
ESPRIT, the review of URIAGE. ORDRE NOUVEAU and
PERSONALISM were both explicitly anti-American and anti-nation-state.
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