11/08/2023
Alexander Dugin
« [The book “Eschatological Optimism”] is Dasha’s philosophy, a philosophy that astonished its English translator, who, by the way, is an altogether serious philosopher, Jafe Arnold, an American of Polish heritage, a completely remarkable, independent thinker. Having translated many texts as well as written his own, he says “I first found myself in an astonishing situation in translating this book, Eschatological Optimism. I see how genius ideas, intuitions, are growing, but they don’t yet take on a final form.” He writes, “I’m participating in the process of philosophy, but not dealing with its products, not dealing with something already finished, with some concepts, theory, or any finally formulated constructs which we then just continue and develop.” He says that it is as if he found himself in a garden and some fruits are ripening before your very eyes. You don’t even understand whether these are already ripe fruits or fruits only starting to ripen. It is ripening philosophy coming into maturation. This is what is most important in Dasha: a ripening that was interrupted in its physical person, but whether it will be interrupted or not from the point of view of her spirit — her ripening was spiritual, intellectual — this depends, I think, on those who are left here. 'Everything has its time on this Earth.’ What is important is to catch up, to continue this ripening. This ripening is something active, because in any thought, in any historical process, everything might go wrong. This is not a mechanical process. He described it as one that is moving and in motion. In general, indeed, real philosophy is always open… Real living philosophy always retains this ripening, this openness. To repeat it is useless; it needs to be lived. Real philosophy is something that one needs to co-participate in. If you don’t give yourself up and invest yourself, your heart, your spirit, in order to move in this direction, then you’ll find yourself outside, as if you were thrown out of the centrifugal force. This centrifugal force is really difficult. This is how Jafe Arnold described the translation of Dasha’s book — as such an immersion into open philosophy. He then says that this is what is most important and foremost because, in dealing with a not quite finished thought, you are compelled to finish it, to crown it, to be, to become Dasha, to show further what shows itself within it, not outside of it, not as an observer, but moving along the path that she pointed out… It is a sign that stands on a path, and she laid down this sign. She said “Go there” — but what is there? I think that neither she nor anyone knows. In this lies faith. Not seeing, but believing, having faith. »
— Alexander Dugin
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