Political Platonism
| Political Platonism: The Philosophy of Politics | |
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| Author(s) | Alexander Dugin |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Politics |
| Publisher | Arktos |
| Publication year | 2019 |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 1912079909 |
Political Platonism: The Philosophy of Politics is a book by the prolific Russian philosopher and author Alexander Dugin, published in English by Arktos in 2019.
Publisher description
"Alexander Dugin’s Political Platonism offers a seminal analysis of the contemporary philosophical crisis from one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia. Through a series of essays, course transcripts, and a single long interview—each remarkable for the depth of its learning and the boldness of its vision—Dugin exposes the profoundest roots of the Western philosophical tradition, offering his view of why it has reached its final terminus, and his indication of where a new beginning must be sought.
The works collected in this volume present Dugin’s theory of Political Platonism as a fundamental philosophical and political orientation, capable at once of reviving higher political and social forms and furnishing solid ground for resistance to the collapse of the contemporary world. His multi-perspective thesis offers a thorough and thought-provoking critique of modernity and a masterful survey of Western philosophy, reaching from before Heraclitus to beyond Heidegger. In its provocative, clear-sighted analyses and its visionary flights, this book provides an invaluable reference for those already familiar with Dugin, and an intriguing introduction for those coming to him for the first time."[1]
Contents
1. The Philosophy of Politics
2. Deconstruction of Democracy
The Concept of “Democracy” Is Not Neutral and Not Self-Evident
Demos in “Democracy”: Aristotle’s Etymology
The Metaphysical Foundations of Democracy: The Hypotheses of the Parmenides
The Hypotheses of the Parmenides and Types of Democracy
Political Platonism
3. Political Platonism and Its Ontological Bases
Part 1. Total Homologies of Power in Platonism
Part 2. The Structures of Platonopolis and the Hypotheses of the Parmenides
Part 3. The Aristomorphosis of Politics in Aristotle
Conclusion
4. Traditionalism against Devilopolis
From Progress to Eschatology: A Change of Reference Points
Traditionalism as Philosophy and Its Appearance in Russia
René Guénon: The Foundations of Philosophy
Julius Evola’s Revolt Against the Modern World
Traditionalism and Non-Conformism
Reasons for the Relevance of Traditionalism
Towards Political Platonism
Critique of Devilopolis: Opening the “World Egg” from Below
Russia’s Eschatological Choice
5. Plato’s Relevance for Russia and the Platonic Minimum
6. Christianity and Neo-Platonism
7. Heraclitus and Contemporary Russia
8. A Conversation about Noomachy
9. The Existential Theory of Society
Implicit Sociology
Volk Als Dasein
The Existential Structure of the Volk
The Project of Authentic Society: The Existential Empire
The Narod and Its God: The Religion of Selbst
10. Thinking Chaos and the Other Beginning of Philosophy
Books by the same author
- The Great Awakening vs the Great Reset, 2021
- The Theory of a Multipolar World, 2021
- Ethnosociology: The Foundations, 2019
- Ethnos and Society, 2018
- The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory, 2017
- Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia, 2015
- Eurasian Mission: An Introduction to Neo-Eurasianism, 2014
Publication data
- Political Platonism: The Philosophy of Politics, Alexander Dugin, 2019, Arktos, ISBN-10: 1912079909, ISBN-13: 978-1-912079-90-2
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