Old wine in a postmodern bottle: Aleksandr Dugin's "Fourth political theory" and Aurel Kolnai's War against the West.
The first section reconstructs Dugin's claims to have charted a "fourth political theory" (4PT), which would have broken from "fascism" and "Nazism", the "third political theory" (as well liberalism and communism, the first and second "PTs" respectively). The second section of the paper critically u...
| Publicado en: | Studies in East European Thought Vol. 78; no. 1/2; pp. 189 - 209 |
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