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<p>Michael Millerman, English-language translator of many of the works of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, has suggested – most recently in an essay in the journal <i>First Things</i> and in an accompanying podcast with the editor of the journal – that Dugin is a thinker of the first rank, offering a political philosophy that liberals and anti-liberals alike need to take seriously. How well does such a claim stand up to critical scrutiny? In particular, does Dugin’s principal contribution to political theory, his book <i>The Fourth Political Theory</i>, offer a coherent and thoughtful philosophical challenge to the liberal and democratic ideas that prevail in Western societies? Or is his “theorizing” of a piece with the hysterical rants that typically characterize his activities as a ferociously anti-liberal ideologue? This article attempts to address such questions by means of a critical re-examination of the relationship between Dugin the philosopher and Dugin the ideologue.</p>

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Alexander Dugin: philosopher or ideologue?

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    2025年2月19日

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  • Ronald Beiner

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Michael Millerman, English-language translator of many of the works of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, has suggested – most recently in an essay in the journal First Things and in an accompanying podcast with the editor of the journal – that Dugin is a thinker of the first rank, offering a political philosophy that liberals and anti-liberals alike need to take seriously. How well does such a claim stand up to critical scrutiny? In particular, does Dugin’s principal contribution to political theory, his book The Fourth Political Theory, offer a coherent and thoughtful philosophical challenge to the liberal and democratic ideas that prevail in Western societies? Or is his “theorizing” of a piece with the hysterical rants that typically characterize his activities as a ferociously anti-liberal ideologue? This article attempts to address such questions by means of a critical re-examination of the relationship between Dugin the philosopher and Dugin the ideologue.