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“... In Russian Eurasianism (2018) Laruelle argued that the career of the ‘Eurasianist’ Aleksandr Dugin, the best-known ideologue of contemporary civilisationism, exemplifies the unpredictability of this landscape. His post-Soviet career began alongside Eduard Limonov in the fringe National Bolshevik Party, which blended (with no little provocation) elements ...”

“... of a Heideggerian Trump has already been raised by the endorsement Trump received from Alexander Dugin, the Russian occultist and political theorist sometimes referred to as ‘Putin’s Rasputin’. Dugin, unlike conventional Heidegger scholars, recognises Heidegger’s work from the mid to late 1930s (represented by such ...”

“... sexes whose dream date is Charles Manson. With the self-avowed fascist ‘visionary’ Aleksandr Dugin, Limonov founds the National Bolshevik Party, an amalgam of Nazi mysticism, nostalgia for the USSR in the 1930s and anarchist incoherence. He inserts himself in the Chechen war, in pro-Russian agitation in the Baltics. Arrested during a field trip ‘to ...”

“... Putin? The intellectual power behind the throne is the ‘Eurasianist’ philosopher Alexander Dugin, talked up by Western pundits as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the world’. Bolsonaro? Study Olavo de Carvalho, self-taught Brazilian philosopher, former astrologer and chain-smoking conspiracy theorist. Even now, we are told that the man to watch ...”

“... with sex, birth and death – and naming the culprits. The Russian far-right philosopher Aleksandr Dugin recently described Ukrainians as ‘collective transgenders’: Ukraine blurs the boundaries between Russia and the West, he says, thereby undermining the integrity of the Russian nation.‘Popular war against national enemies,’ as Seymour puts it, may ...”

“... against appropriation of the term in the neo-imperial fantasies of Russian conservatives like Dugin or Prokhanov. But it also came from the difficulty of squaring a problematic so single-mindedly centred on the requirements and hopes of democracy as an internal regime, with the implications for them of the external coexistence of states of vastly ...”

“... tsar’s children themselves. These are fictions. The polyglot intelligence specialist Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics draws on Carl Schmitt and Halford Mackinder to counterpose powers of the sea (the Atlantic world centred on the US) to powers of the land, stretching from the Maghreb to China, but centred on Russia, as their natural ...”