This is my translation of the first part of Dugin's second Heidegger book. I have mentioned in before in my books Beginning with Heidegger and Inside "Putin's Brain."

It helps explain why for Dugin to master Heidegger is at present and in the near future “the main strategic task of the Russian people and Russian society,” and why he calls Heidegger “the key to the Russian tomorrow."

Besides helping you understand Dugin and Heidegger, I hope that it shows you what it looks like to take a controversial thinker seriously through the study of primary sources and basic questions.

I also hope it serves as an interesting case study for political philosophy more generally, since Dugin takes it for granted neither that Russian philosophy exists (like nationalists do) nor that it is impossible (like liberals do).

This book will show you what it means to be interested in the question of the possibility of philosophy, and of Russian philosophy, specifically. Along the way, you'll learn a bit about how Dugin interprets the previous history of Russian thought.

Enjoy.