0062 What about Dugin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alexander Dugin wants to know whether there can be such a project as Russian political philosophy. To me, this is a great question, because if there is a Russian political philosophy, then is should be as entertaining as an American political philosophy, starting from… say… the mound builders at Poverty Point, Louisiana. I suspect that there is. Let me take a look at the Book of Mormon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0063 Dugin, the Russian, is drawn to Heidegger, the German, because the wizard has found two philosophical golden tablets. One tablet offers to develop a philosophically adequate account of cultures as expressions of souls<\/em>(corresponding to Dasein). The other tablet promises a return to a study of the ancients as they are<\/em>, rather than what we project upon them<\/em>. Not unlike the intrepid American, Joseph Smith, Dugin must translate these tablets into his native language. Joseph Smith translates angelic script. Alexander Dugin translates Heidegger’s German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0064 To me, English (for Smith) and Russian (for Dugin) are only networks within a larger web of consciousness. They allow us to envision a star, in the constellation of virtues, that is some sort of Omega Point. Over time, our mundane earth rises towards the celestial earth, which itself moves towards a stellar Omega Point, as Teilhard de Chardin envisions. See A Primer on Classical Political Philosophy,<\/em> by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0065 Well, Millerman does not mention any of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My flight of fancy<\/em> soars into the joint between the end of the introduction<\/em> and a translation of Alexander Dugin’s plans,<\/em> as they appear in the 2011 Russian edition of Martin Heidegger and the Possibility of Russian Philosophy<\/em> (Moscow: Academic Project).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sort of like an axe hitting a soft spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0066 Dugin’s masterplan contains three tasks, (1) dismantling archeomodernity, (2) correctly comprehending the West and (3) elaborating a philosophy of chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0067 On one hand, I think, “Whoa. Dugin’s tasks are more ambitious than John Deely’s project <\/em>to describe the arc of philosophical history <\/em>in terms of the development of the causality inherent in signs<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deely’s book, Four Ages of Understanding<\/em> (2001) runs over a thousand pages. It is published by the… um… University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0068 On the other hand, I think, “Well, maybe, Dugin’s tasks are not as ambitious as the tasks proposed on October 1, 2022, of Razie Mah’s blog,<\/em> under the title, A Fantasia in G-Minor: A Speech Written for Gunnar Beck MEP<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n MEP is an acronym for “Member of the European Parliament”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0069 In the following blogs, I will present a stream of consciousness<\/em> for each of Dugin’s heroic tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 0062 What about Dugin? Alexander Dugin wants to know whether there can be such a project as Russian political philosophy. To me, this is a great question, because if there is a Russian political philosophy, then is should be as entertaining as an American political philosophy, starting from… say… the mound builders at Poverty Point, Louisiana. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,280,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greimas-square","category-intimations-of-political-philosophy","category-our-current-lebenswelt","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n