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 suspect that there is.  Let me take a look at the Book of Mormon.

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(corresponding to Dasein).  The other tablet promises a return to a study of the ancients as they are, rather than what we project upon them.  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.

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, by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues.

0065 Well, Millerman does not mention any of this.

My flight of fancy soars into the joint between the end of the introduction and a translation of Alexander Dugin’s plans, as they appear in the 2011 Russian edition of Martin Heidegger and the Possibility of Russian Philosophy (Moscow: Academic Project).

Sort of like an axe hitting a soft spot.

0066 Dugin’s masterplan contains three tasks, (1) dismantling archeomodernity, (2) correctly comprehending the West and (3) elaborating a philosophy of chaos.

0067 On one hand, I think, “Whoa.  Dugin’s tasks are more ambitious than John Deely’s project to describe the arc of philosophical history in terms of the development of the causality inherent in signs.”

Deely’s book, Four Ages of Understanding (2001) runs over a thousand pages.  It is published by the… um… University of Toronto.

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, under the title, A Fantasia in G-Minor: A Speech Written for Gunnar Beck MEP.”

MEP is an acronym for “Member of the European Parliament”.

0069 In the following blogs, I will present a stream of consciousness for each of Dugin’s heroic tasks.