Although Alexander Dugin is best known in the English-speaking world as Russia’s most prominent pro-Putin, anti-Western ideologue, and although his reputation in that regard is mostly negative, there are good reasons to study him that have more to do with philosophical concerns than with pure politics. His most popular book available in English, The Fourth Political Theory, is conspicuous for its reliance on Heidegger and Husserl. And the impression that phenomenology, in particular, occupies an important place in Dugin’s thought is strengthened when we turn to untranslated primary sources. Dugin’s comprehensive online education portal, Paideuma.tv, includes two important lecture series: phenomenological readings of Aristotle and the phenomenology of the Radical Subject. Careful examination of the figure of the Radical Subject in these and related sources will show that phenomenology and posthumanism are intimately connected in Dugin’s thought. That connection will help us better understand the philosophical basis and nature of Dugin’s critique of Western political modernity.

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Phenomenology for a Posthumanist Age: Alexander Dugin’s “Radical Subject”

  • Michael Millerman

摘要

Although Alexander Dugin is best known in the English-speaking world as Russia’s most prominent pro-Putin, anti-Western ideologue, and although his reputation in that regard is mostly negative, there are good reasons to study him that have more to do with philosophical concerns than with pure politics. His most popular book available in English, The Fourth Political Theory, is conspicuous for its reliance on Heidegger and Husserl. And the impression that phenomenology, in particular, occupies an important place in Dugin’s thought is strengthened when we turn to untranslated primary sources. Dugin’s comprehensive online education portal, Paideuma.tv, includes two important lecture series: phenomenological readings of Aristotle and the phenomenology of the Radical Subject. Careful examination of the figure of the Radical Subject in these and related sources will show that phenomenology and posthumanism are intimately connected in Dugin’s thought. That connection will help us better understand the philosophical basis and nature of Dugin’s critique of Western political modernity.