Radical conservatism and the Heideggerian right: Heidegger, de Benoist, Dugin

The paper studies the significance of Martin Heidegger's philosophy history for two key thinkers contemporary radical conservatism and Identitarian movement, Alain de Benoist Aleksandr Dugin. often-overlooked affinities with German “conservative revolution” Weimar period have in recent years been emphasized by an emerging radical-conservative “right-Heideggerian” orientation. I first discuss later “being-historical” narrative culmination end metaphysical foundations Western modernity Nietzschean era nihilism postmodern “other beginning” thinking, focused on historical cultural relativism particularism. In work 1930s 1940s, we find attempts to apply this interpreting geopolitical ideological phenomena ways that connect Heidegger certain central ideas concerns conservative revolutionaries, especially Carl Schmitt's De Benoist, name French Nouvelle Droite a founding figure Identitarianism, is particularly inspired reading Nietzsche as “metaphysics subjectivity” dominating modernity. For modern metaphysics root “ideology Same” underlying liberal universalism individualism he opposes ethnopluralism. Benoist's Russian disciple Dugin bases pluralistic geopolitics his “fourth political theory” legacy revolution, intellectual model which discovers notion beginning”.