Michael Meng is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (2011) and co-editor of several volumes including Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (2015) and Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany (2020). With Jeff Love, he has co-written Revolutionary Bio-Politics from Fedorov to Mao (2023). Jeff Love is Research Scholar at the Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought, Northwestern University, USA. His books include: Revolutionary Bio-politics from Fedorov to Mao (with Michael Meng) (2023); The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève (2018); Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008); The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (2004); and translations of Alexandre Kojève’s Atheism, F.W.J. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom, and António Lobo Antunes’s Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water.

This is a bold and astonishing book. It pulls together two very different Russian philosophers, the humanist Vladimir Bibikhin and the Putin apologist Alexander Dugin, serious Heideggerians who apply the master’s legacy on mortality, politics, and metaphysics to reboot a new Russia. A wake-up call for the Western ear too prone to hear only our own fading triumphalist debates.

• Introduction1. The Violence-Doer 2. Political Detours?3. In Search of Russian Philosophy 4. The Last God 5. An Other Way6. Is Transition Still Possible? BibliographyIndex

Michael Meng is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (2011) and co-editor of several volumes including Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (2015) and Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany (2020). With Jeff Love, he has co-written Revolutionary Bio-Politics from Fedorov to Mao (2023). Jeff Love is Research Scholar at the Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought, Northwestern University, USA. His books include: Revolutionary Bio-politics from Fedorov to Mao (with Michael Meng) (2023); The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève (2018); Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008); The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (2004); and translations of Alexandre Kojève’s Atheism, F.W.J. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom, and António Lobo Antunes’s Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water.

This is a bold and astonishing book. It pulls together two very different Russian philosophers, the humanist Vladimir Bibikhin and the Putin apologist Alexander Dugin, serious Heideggerians who apply the master’s legacy on mortality, politics, and metaphysics to reboot a new Russia. A wake-up call for the Western ear too prone to hear only our own fading triumphalist debates.

• Introduction1. The Violence-Doer 2. Political Detours?3. In Search of Russian Philosophy 4. The Last God 5. An Other Way6. Is Transition Still Possible? BibliographyIndex

Michael Meng is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (2011) and co-editor of several volumes including Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (2015) and Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany (2020). With Jeff Love, he has co-written Revolutionary Bio-Politics from Fedorov to Mao (2023). Jeff Love is Research Scholar at the Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought, Northwestern University, USA. His books include: Revolutionary Bio-politics from Fedorov to Mao (with Michael Meng) (2023); The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève (2018); Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008); The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (2004); and translations of Alexandre Kojève’s Atheism, F.W.J. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom, and António Lobo Antunes’s Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water.

This is a bold and astonishing book. It pulls together two very different Russian philosophers, the humanist Vladimir Bibikhin and the Putin apologist Alexander Dugin, serious Heideggerians who apply the master’s legacy on mortality, politics, and metaphysics to reboot a new Russia. A wake-up call for the Western ear too prone to hear only our own fading triumphalist debates.

• Introduction1. The Violence-Doer 2. Political Detours?3. In Search of Russian Philosophy 4. The Last God 5. An Other Way6. Is Transition Still Possible? BibliographyIndex