One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Kojève wrote a great deal, he published very little in his lifetime, and so the ongoing rediscovery of his work continues to present new challenges to philosophy and political theory. Written in 1931 but left unfinished, Atheism is an erudite and open-ended explorati...

In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Koj�ve uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France.This foundational text, translated here into English for the first time, is the missing piece in any discussion of sovereignty and political authority, worthy of a place alongside the work of Weber, Arendt, Sch...

In this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern bureaucracy, Alexandre Koj�ve, a philosopher of little-known writings and profound influence. Koj�ve was fascinated with Hegel's dialectics and with communism and envisioned a universal empire as the end of history. Koj�ve drew on Buddhism and also proclaimed himself a Stalinist. At the same time, he was one of the creators of a nascent European Union. His concept of the human as someth...

Immanuel Kant's philosophical system, Koj�ve argues, is haunted by the Thing-in-itself as the ultimate expression of 'bourgeois hypocrisy' and its internally divided reason, split between action and discourse. Making a case for the post-historical moral imperative to turn away from infinite progress and the practical justification of the ideas of God and the immortality of the soul, Kant outlines the material conditions of possibility for revolutionary action within the twin horiz...

This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève's work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences and that which he might have sought himself to exercise in a pedagogical and practical manner. The first part of the book comprises six essays in which their authors explore Kojève's understanding of art, religion and atheism, and his reception of the thought of Hegel, Marx, and Carl Schmitt. The ...

The book brings into relief Kojève’s original contributions as a legal thinker through a series of critical dialogues and debates about law and right between Kojève and other influential contributors to legal scholarship across the humanities and social sciences.These critical dialogues and debates are comparative in character and range from factual ones—such as Kojève’s dialogues and debates with Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt—to hypothetical ones—such as Kojève’s dialogues and deba...

El nombre de Alexandre Kojève no ha dejado de ser un foco de atracción para el imaginario filosófico y político contemporáneo. Su Introducción a la lectura de Hegel (Trotta, 2013), fruto del mítico seminario impartido entre 1933 y 1939 ante la intelectualidad francesa, hizo época con nociones como la de lucha por el reconocimiento o la del final de la historia. A su fama de maître à penser se une el aura de su posterior carrera en los medios de la diplomacia mundial y de las altas finanzas...

Nichols examines the major writings of Alexandre Kojève, and clarifies the character and brings to light the importance of his political philosophy. While emphasizing the political dimension of Kojève's thought, Nichols treats all his major published writings and shows how the remarkably varied parts of Kojève's intellectual endeavor go together. This is an essential assessment of Kojève which considers the works that preceded his turn to Hegel, seeks to articulate the character of his Heg...

Durata più di un trentennio, la contesa fra due dei massimi pensatori del Novecento – Leo Strauss e Alexandre Kojève – ha come oggetto la relazione tra il potere politico e la filosofia come saggezza, e dunque la responsabilità della filosofia in rapporto alla società. Nella prospettiva hegeliana di Kojève: la stessa ragione d'essere della filosofia. I due sono pienamente d'accordo sull'esistenza di una opposizione tra filosofia e società, ma non concordano sulla soluzione del conflitto. P...

La fama di Kojève resta in buona parte ancora affidata alle sue leggendarie lezioni parigine degli anni trenta sulla Fenomenologia dello spirito di Hegel, fra i cui uditori erano Georges Bataille e Jacques Lacan, Raymond Queneau e André Breton, Merleau-Ponty e Raymond Aron. Da allora, quest’uomo – che con noncuranza, quasi badando ad altro, era entrato nel mito della cultura francese – abbandonò ogni attività filosofica pubblica per diventare un alto funzionario dello Stato francese. Kojèv...

Er nannte sich selbst "Sonntagsphilosoph", schuf eine epochale Hegel-Interpretation, die auf das Werk von Bataille, Breton, Lacan und Derrida ausstrahlte, spionierte wahrscheinlich für den KGB und war Co-Architekt des europäischen Wirtschaftsraums: Kaum ein Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts griff so lustvoll und verschiedentlich in die Geschichte ein wie Alexandre Kojève. Dass schon dem achtzehnjährigen Kojève ein anderes Leben als pure Zumutung erschienen wäre, zeigt sein "Tagebuch eines Philos...

Un viaje a los orígenes del pensamiento de Lacan, donde se gestan sus primeras influencias.En esta nueva obra, Juan Pablo Lucchelli explora los trabajos iniciales de Lacan, mucho antes de su encuentro con lo que se denomina estructuralismo. Se suele situar el inicio de la obra de Lacan a principios de los años cincuenta, tras su encuentro con la obra de Lévi-Strauss, y a menudo se ignora el período que la precedió. Sin embargo, entre las numerosas referencias que i...