Is Aleksandr Dugin a Traditionalist?“Neo-Eurasianism” and Perennial Philosophy
✍ Scribed by ANTON SHEKHOVTSOV; ANDREAS UMLAND
- Book ID
- 111007756
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0036-0341
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✦ Synopsis
How relevant is Integral Traditionalism or Philosophia Perennis to an adequate assessment of the multifaceted phenomenon of post-Soviet Russian "neo-Eurasianism," as a whole, and to the eclectic social doctrine of Aleksandr Dugin (b. 1962), in particular? 1 A final answer to this question would be only possible if Dugin's International Eurasian Movement (Mezhdunarodnoe "Evraziiskoe dvizhenie")-or another organization principally inspired by him-were to rise to power and through its policies clarify which aspects of his vague ideology are most significant. 2 Nevertheless, in this article we shall evaluate the significance of Integral Traditionalism for Dugin's ideological constructs. Such an attempt is motivated in part by Dugin's repeated self-identification-despite the epigraph-as a "Traditionalist" and his numerous references to the classics of Integral Traditionalism.The authors would like to thank Olena Sivuda for her help in the preparation of this text for publication. 1 We have raised selected issues dealt with in this article earlier in Andreas Umland, "Der 'Neoeurasismus' des Aleksandr Dugin: Zur Rolle des integralen Traditionalismus und der Orthodoxie für die russische 'Neue Rechte,'" in