The Palingenetic Thrust of Russian Neo-Eurasianism: Ideas of Rebirth in Aleksandr Dugin's Worldview

摘要

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.