Empire between time and eternity: marginalia in the margins of Alexander Dugin's new book
When one begins to review the seminal work of A.G. Dugin's “Genesis and Empire. Ontology and Eschatology of the Universal Kingdom”, one feels extreme uncertainty: where to start? How not to miss the most important thing? Great things are always best seen at a respectful distance, and so we will focus on highlighting a few central thoughts around which the narrative revolves. One of these is the thesis of ontological incorporation attributable to the imperial model. In other words, Empire as a phenomenon and as an idea is inherent in a definite being, independent of its (dis)recognition by those who hold power or those who are subjected to it. However, the state of the current political sphere depends on how exactly we understand Empire (and this is not just a matter of a correct or distorted view).
