The Real Fourth Political Theory

• Authors: Randall E. Auxier

Abstracts

EN

Aleksandr Dugin is sometimes called “Putin’s brain,” and there can be no question that Putin’s global strategy for expanding Russian power has followed quite precisely a strategic plan created, published, and advocated by Dugin beginning in 1996. This aggressive plan of political destabilization, economic hostage-taking, and ultimately militaristic invasions has been defended with a philosophical patchwork called “the Fourth Political Theory.” Dugin claims his “National Bolshevism” can stand alongside communism, fascism, and liberalism as a genuine contender in ontology, the philosophy of history, and political philosophy; and that it is the only theory that stands in genuine opposition to neo-liberalism and corporate capitalism. I show that this view, built from a distortion of Heidegger’s idea of “human-being” as Dasein, is not a coherent philosophy or worldview. I contrast it with personalism, which has always opposed the very aspects of communism, fascism, and liberalism that Dugin opposes, and does so quite effectively and without militarism, expansionism, or the need to take the nation state as some final end of human political development.

Keywords

EN

Dugin; the fourth political theory; Dasein; Heidegger; personalism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 78-95

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Randall E. Auxier

• Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

• https://orcid.org/0000000311211471

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2022.0036

Biblioteka Nauki

2197129