Alexander Dugin is right-wing and religious—and a disciple of Heidegger‘s.Michael Foucault is left-wing and atheist—and a disciple of Heidegger‘s. Here is Dugin on the philosopher who accomplished “the most all-encompassing, paradoxical, profound, and penetrating study of Being. I am talking about Martin Heidegger.” (Source: The Fourth Political Theory, 2009)) And here is Foucault: “Heidegger has […]

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I’ll be doing an “Ask Me Anything about Philosophy” at X’s Spaces, today at 5:30 Central. Bring your best hard questions.

Compact rhetoric in the image, yet let me quibble: Any worked-out version of socialism involves at least 10 intentions about political goals and methods. Maybe one of those can be described as good. Yet one good intention out of ten does not a good person make, especially if it requires ignoring the other nine bad