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Liverant’s account of Dugin engaged three of my intellectual concerns: the unique character of Russian thought, the mystical tradition as a counterweight to modern rationalism, and the Platonic figure of the philosopher-king.
Aug 3, 2023 · In his remarks, he described her as a ‘true patriot,’ and a ‘bright, talented person with a real Russian heart’. Putin and the Kremlin’s communications apparatus have attempted to tie the war in Ukraine closely to the kind of reactionary ideology Dugin and his associates have promoted for decades.
Aug 22, 2022 · Alexander Dugin, whose daughter Darya was killed Saturday by a car bomb, is the high priest of a virulent brand of Russian nationalism that has become increasingly influential in Moscow.
- A Philosopher-Activist
- The “Ukrainian Problem”
- Dugin’s Sacred Geography
- This “Kingdom of The Anti-Christ”
- “The End of Days … Will Not Come by Itself”
- “Absolutely Empty and Disgusting Place”
Dugin’s ideas are a kind of syncretistic hodgepodge of concepts drawn from several philosophical and quasi-religious sources. These include: the radically anti-modern traditionalism of figures like Italian ultra-fascist Julius Evola; the interwar German “conservative revolution” which assisted in bringing down the Weimar republic, led by Carl Schmi...
Dugin wrote in his 1997 book, Foundations of Geopolitics: When he was asked in 2008 about the development of friendly relations between the United States and former Soviet Republics, Dugin pronounced that Russia should consider such relations a “declaration of psychological, geopolitical, economic and open war”. In another interviewin the same year...
In his essay “From Sacred Geography to Geopolitics”, Dugin contends that his more concrete deliberations on Eurasian geopolitics involve a “laicizing and desacralizing” of older, allegedly more profound "traditional" sciences, beyond the reckoning of all but a spiritual elite. According to these esoteric sciences, concrete economic and political ev...
As Russia and her allies are positioned “in a pure spiritual, metaphysical sense”, so the West is homogenised and demonised, independent of its manifold divisions and competing directions. As Dugin writes: “The West has the opposite symbolic meaning [to Eurasia]. It is a ‘country of death’, the ‘lifeless world’ … ‘the empire of exile’, ‘the pit of ...
At its most extreme point, Dugin’s sense of Russia’s messianic war against the West culminates in an eschatological fascination with the apocalypse. As he writes in The Fourth Political Theory: At this point, one can only express the ardent hope, for everyone’s sake — including the Russian people’s — that Dugin continues to be considered far too ex...
In a telling reflection on his early life, Dugin has confessed: This week, this man who has long urged the Russian people to live by the sword and embrace their messianic role in world history, has seen his own calls for violence answered with violence against his own family. We must hope that the death of Daria Dugina is not taken up by extreme fo...
For Dugin, the ‘Time of Troubles’ – the period of Russian history at the beginning of the seventeenth century marked by dynastic crisis and general chaos – constitutes an explanatory framework for the present. Dugin implicitly regarded the ‘Time of Troubles’ in broader philosophical terms.
- Dmitry Shlapentokh
- 2019
Dugin's ideas, particularly those on "a Turkic–Slavic alliance in the Eurasian sphere", have begun to receive attention among certain nationalistic circles in Turkey, most notably among alleged members of the Ergenekon network, which is the subject of a high-profile trial (on charges of conspiracy).
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Aug 21, 2022 · Alexander Dugin, whose daughter Darya was killed Saturday by a car bomb, is the high priest of a virulent brand of Russian nationalism that has become increasingly influential in Moscow.
