The Traditionalism of Alexander Dugin

An article in Politica Hermetica (2020) provides a comprehensive overview of Alexander Dugin's reception and development of Traditionalism. It is Jafe Arnold, "Guénon en Russie : le Traditionalisme d'Alexandre Douguine." The English original, "Guénon in Russia: The Traditionalism of Alexander Dugin," is available on Academia.edu here.

As Arnold points out, many scholars who dismiss Dugin's Traditionalism have not actually read much of what he has written. Arnold has, and in Russian too. He identified three phases in Dugin's reception of Traditionalism: an initial one, in which Dugin really just read Guénon and Evola; a second phase, during which he reconciled Traditionalism with Christianity; and a third phase, in which he decided that tradition and Traditionalism were not actually the same thing, and that Traditionalism was valuable not as an account of tradition but as a powerful philosophy that could analyse not only modernity but also postmodernity. 

The third of these phases is the most complex and the most interesting, and may well be Traditionalism's way forward.

A must-read.