Soviet philosophy

[Chris Doss]

Heideggerianism, or a certain interpretation thereof, is quite popular among
pan-Slavist Great Russian intellectuals like Alexander Dugin (who used to be
in the National Bolshevik Party by had a falling out and is now a
neo-liberal ideologue of Putinism -- though I doubt Putin has ever heard of
him).

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal
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I heard Susan Buck-Morss give a talk the other day. She recounted 
some of her experiences visiting the USSR in its final days, and a 
circle of philosophers and other scholars she'd befriended. At a 
meeting with some other Western visitors, one of the Soviets said 
he'd been reading Heidegger. One of the Westerners brought up H's 
Nazi connections, and the Soviets said - "So what? We don't care! 
He's bourgeois, and that's why we're reading him!"

Doug