It’s been a while since I have translated a book by Alexander Dugin. The last project I did was a series of essays from platonizm.ru, to be published by Arktos under the title Political Platonism. But in recent conversations with smart political philosophers, Dugin’s second Heidegger book, Martin Heidegger: The Possibility of Russian Philosophy keeps coming up, leaving me with a strong urge to get to work on making it available in English.
Continue reading “New Dugin Translation Project”Ernesto Araujo: Trump and the West
I’ve made a new Millerman Talks video about the essay “Trump and the West” by Brazil’s Foreign Minister, Ernesto Araujo.
A translation of the essay, is available here: https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2019/01/07/brazils-new-foreign-minister-gives-profound-philosophical-base-to-trumpian-populism/
Beginning with Heidegger: Dissertation Defence
In August, I successfully defended my dissertation, called Beginning with Heidegger: Leo Strauss, Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, Alexander Dugin and the Philosophical Constitution of the Political.
If you’d like, you can read the comments I made at the defence here.
The response aims (1) to better define the notion of the philosophical constitution of the political and (2) to show that the notion is applicable to the authors in my study.
There’s also a section on two risks that arise in studying Heidegger, the risk of being seduced by his philosophy into support for his politics, and the risk of rejecting his philosophy out of over-zealous defence of liberalism.
Lastly, the response talks a bit about the notion of conversion and its place in my reading of the Heidegger receptions. I had planned to make conversion the topic of my next book.
The dissertation is available online for students (search my name on your university library website). It will be published as a book in about a year. Meantime, some of my Millerman Talks videos will be on Heidegger and Political Theory, if you want a preview.
Right Heideggerianism and Jewish Thought
At the University of Toronto, I did a PhD in Political Science. My two subfields were political theory and international relations. But I also did a collaborative degree in Jewish Studies. As part of my degree requirements, I had to give a talk at the Center for Jewish Studies. Controversially, I decided to speak on the relevance of Heidegger to Jewish thought. In particular, I wanted to highlight “Right Heideggerianism” as an understudied philosophical resource.
Because Alexander Dugin is the leading “Right Heideggerian” as defined in the talk, I argued that we should consider the experimental application of his Fourth Political Theory to Zionism. If you’d like to hear the argument in more detail, watch the video below and then read this article: https://bit.ly/2FsYmVI
Black Notebooks 1931-1938 (Excerpts)
Excerpts from Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1938.
Questioning is more provocative and harder than all the empty sharpness of ‘thinking’; it is more thrilling and attuning than all sentiments lashed down to make them secure. – (63)
Book review.
Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Rise of the Far Right
Philosophers have long been seen as politically useless. Socrates conveys the situation in an image. A city is like a ship upon which sailors are fighting to seize control, some throwing overboard or killing others who have managed to take the helm.
Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe
Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe, edited by Jeff Love, is now available.
The latest addition to Rowman & Littlefield’s New Heidegger Research series, “this volume examines Heidegger’s influence in a region where his reception has had a remarkable and largely hidden history: Eastern Europe and Russia.”