Aleksander Dugin is a political philosopher, sociologist, political activist and ideologue of New Eurasianism and of the closely related project of developing the "fourth political theory", which is supposed to represent the political-philosophical foundations of the world after the end of the era of dominant Western influence. We note that the starting point of the multipolar theory is the rejection of a priori preference for the typical modern political concepts, such as the nation-state. This rejection is followed by the postulation of civilization as a political subject, which corresponds to both the post-modern global reality and to the normative axiom of cultural and civilizational pluralism. In the second part, we examine some of the receptions of Dugin's work and put the author in dialogue with established theorists in the field of sociology of globalization and in the field of critical theory, we examine the author's place and influence in the Russian public and politics, and in the Slovenian political and intellectual sphere. At the end, we give some original criticism and suggestions for further research. We conclude that defining Dugin as a far-right theoretician and an obscure Russian philosopher is insufficient, which leads us to the importance of further research into the thoughts and work of this controversial thinker.
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