Alexandre Kojève

An Intellectual Biography

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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In 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 creators of a nascent European Union. His concept of the human as something defined by negation and unique among animals in being separated from nature is highly political. It explains why humans can never be fully satisfied by a political system based on their allegedly 'natural' rights.Groys reveals a Kojève with a unique perspective on our political capacities and human condition.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-11
Mått180 x 20 x 130 mm
Vikt185 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804296820

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Boris Groys lives and works in Berlin. He has taught as Professor at the universities in Germany (ZKM), USA (NYU), UK (Courtauld) and some others. He has curated many exhibitions including an exhibition of Kojève's photography (shown in BAK (Utrecht), Palais Tokyo (Paris), Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), OKAT (Shenzhen, China).His previous books include: Art Power, 2008; An Introduction to Antiphilosophy, 2012; On the New, 2014

Introduction: What does it mean to be human?I. History as Self-Negation1. Struggle for Recognition2. The Self-Reflection3. The Anthropogenic DesireII. From Sophia to Stalin and Back1. Political Androgyny2. Paradisal Work3. Napoleon4. Stalin5. The Sage6. The Working State7. History as MagicIII. The Giving Empire1. The Christian Empire2. The Ideocratic State3. The Latin Empire4. Colonialism and the Giving Empire5. Bataille and Marshall PlanIV. Becoming a Sage1. Painting the Totality2. Visualization of LogosEpilogue: How to remain human after the End of History?