The article examines the circumstances of the spread in
the socio-political life of the West of the doctrine of the French writer
Renaud Camus about the “Great Replacement,” implying the loss by
European peoples of their identity under the influence of Islam and
immigration from Africa and Asia. When assessing the particular
popularity of Camus’ ideas in France, attention is drawn to both
objective demographic prerequisites and collective neuroses caused by
the depressive state of national consciousness, as an example of which
the phenomena of xenophobia in the history of the country are analyzed.
Keywords
immigration; Islam in Europe; cultural identity; E.Macron; R. Camus; E. Zemmour; Great Replacement; national radicalism in France.