Reflections on My Conversation with Aleksandr Dugin

Reflections in this article follow from a conversation with Aleksandr Dugin, recorded on May 27th, 2023. My ambition going into this conversation was to understand Dugin’s relationship to fourth political theory. I consider the importance of the announcement of fourth political theory is unquestionable. The metaphysics of Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit (“Being and Time”,…

The Legacy of Heidegger, the Statesman

When thinking on the legacy of Heidegger, the Statesman, we are, of course, thinking of the legacy of a certain characterization of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger — specifically, his legacy as a political philosopher. This characterization does not appear to be too uncommon throughout the respective academic literature. Perhaps Leo Strauss had prepared for this. After…