The Palingenetic Thrust of Russian Neo‐Eurasianism: Ideas of Rebirth in Aleksandr Dugin’s Worldview
Applying Roger Griffin’s methodological approach to generic fascism, the article analyses individual - socio‐political, cultural and esoteric - themes within Dugin’s doctrine, treating them as elements of a larger integral concept of rebirth that constitutes the core of Neo‐Eurasianism. The article...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2008
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Totalitarian movements and political religions
Year: 2008, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 491-506 |
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| Summary: | Applying Roger Griffin’s methodological approach to generic fascism, the article analyses individual - socio‐political, cultural and esoteric - themes within Dugin’s doctrine, treating them as elements of a larger integral concept of rebirth that constitutes the core of Neo‐Eurasianism. The article highlights the highly syncretic nature of this ideological core, a direct result of the ‘mazeway resynthesis’ that has conditioned Dugin’s worldview. It argues that this process has been necessitated by his self‐appointed task of envisioning a new stage of history beyond Russia’s present decadent and ‘liminoid’ situation, one that he sees only coming about as the result of a ‘geopolitical revolution’. The variant of Eurasionism that results has the function of a political religion containing a powerful palingenetic thrust towards a new Russia and new West. In conclusion, it is suggested that the new order aspired to by Dugin could only be realised by establishing a totalitarian regime. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-9647 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Totalitarian movements and political religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14690760802436142 |