Plettenburg not Paris: Julien Freund, the New Right, and France’s Liberal Moment

Abstract

Julien Freund (1921–1993) was a French sociologist and political theorist who taught at the University of Strasbourg in the 1960s and 1970s.1 Although he was the author of over two dozen books, Freund remained throughout his lifetime something of a marginal figure in France. Yet, two decades after his death, Freund, strangely, is now receiving more scholarly attention than ever before.2