Political Platonism: The Philosophy of Politics

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.