Ce livre qui arrive aujourd’hui à la lumière apporte un éclairage inédit sur une figure aussi légendaire que mystérieuse de la vie intellectuelle française du dernier siècle. On connaissait Kojève comme l’un des introducteurs de la pensée hégélienne en France par l’enseignement qu’il avait dispensé à l’École pratique des hautes études dans les années 1930. Un enseignement qui allait exercer une influence cruciale sur la philosophie d’après-guerre en raison de l’auditoire de choix qui le su...

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...

Unravelling the mystery of Alexandre KojèveIn this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern bureaucracy, Alexandre Kojève, a philosopher of little-known writings and profound influence. Kojève was fascinated with Hegel’s dialectics and with communism and envisioned a universal empire as the end of history. Kojève drew on Buddhism and also proclaimed himself a Stalinist. At the same time, he was one of the crea...

Si la physique classique a largement contribué à modeler nos conceptions et nos représentations de la réalité, la théorie de la relativité et la théorie quantique introduisent aujourd’hui des bouleversements décisifs qui sont en train de transformer jusqu’à notre mode de pensée. Avec L’idée du déterminisme, Alexandre Kojève propose la première analyse fouillée de ces mutations mentales que nous vivons chaque jour. Un travail philosophique sans équivalent qui, non seulement livre une subtil...

Kant forms the centerpiece of Alexandre Kojeve’s intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophyImmanuel Kant’s philosophical system, Kojève 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 jus...

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 ...

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...

Considéré parfois comme le malin génie ou le deus absconditus de la philosophie française d’après-guerre, tant ses leçons paradoxales et provocatrices auront attiré les brillants esprits d’alors (de Lacan à Queneau, en passant par Bataille, Merleau- Ponty et Michel Leiris), le jeune Kojève (1902-1968) s’inscrit pourtant d’abord dans la philosophie russe et ses débats. Et, parmi ces derniers, il y est souvent question de bouddhisme. La Russie, en effet, s’est toujours réfléchie comme une fr...

In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, AlexandreKojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenmentto Vichy France.This foundational text, translated here into English for the first time, is the missing piecein any discussion of sovereignty and political authority, worthy of a place alongside thework of Web...

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...

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...

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...