{"product_id":"heideggers-russians-bibikhin-and-dugin-on-the-other-beginning-9781538146279","title":"Heidegger's Russians: Bibikhin and Dugin on the Other Beginning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book gives a philosophical account of Martin Heidegger's influence on two important and hitherto understudied Russian philosophers, Aleksandr Dugin (b. 1962 -) and Vladimir Bibikhin (1938 - 2004). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book focuses on Heidegger's thought as revolutionary and in search of bringing about an other beginning in philosophy and politics. Dugin and Bibikhin are examples of Russian thinkers inspired by Heidegger to consider revolutionary alternatives in the creation of a new beginning for Russia in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Dugin represents an attempt to assert the sovereign identity and destiny of Russia and Russian thought as against modern liberal thinking, inspired by the Enlightenment and embodied in the hegemony of the United States, the \"unipolar tyrant\" threatening to impose its domination on the world. Bibikhin envisages a different assertion of Russian identity that does not seek direct confrontation with other nations but a transformation in how we may think the political and the destiny of humanity in the modern technological age. If Dugin advocates struggle and a philosophy of chaos that is distinctively Russian in his view, Bibikhin advocates a coming to terms with our brief existence by taking on the burden of mortality, in his words, the \"burden of the cross.\" If Dugin advocates recognition of the negative and nothingness, Bibikhin advocates plenitude, a fullness that cannot be exhausted. These Russian thinkers take up major aspects of Heidegger's philosophical work; they adapt them in intriguing ways to an extreme existential and political situation whose consequences are still very relevant to the present day, both in terms of Russia's influence on the world stage and on the growing turn to the political right that is an international phenomenon of considerable importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Meng \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland \u003c\/i\u003e(2011) and co-editor of several volumes including \u003ci\u003eJewish Space in Contemporary Poland\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and\u003ci\u003e Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). With Jeff Love, he has co-written \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Bio-Politics from Fedorov to Mao\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJeff Love\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Scholar at the Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought, Northwestern University, USA. His books include: \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Bio-politics from Fedorov to Mao\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael Meng) (2023); \u003ci\u003eThe Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003eTolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed\u003c\/i\u003e (2008); \u003ci\u003eThe Overcoming of History in War and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e (2004); and translations of Alexandre Kojève's\u003ci\u003e Atheism\u003c\/i\u003e, F.W.J. Schelling's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, and António Lobo Antunes's \u003ci\u003eUntil Stones Become Lighter Than Water.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967091998994,"sku":"9781538146279","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9740030e-124e-4e57-ba84-3ef549618833.jpg?v=1768925079","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heideggers-russians-bibikhin-and-dugin-on-the-other-beginning-9781538146279","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}