Kojève and Law

Igor Shoikhedbrod is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation award in 2019, “for an outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the American Political Science Association Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world.” In 2021, Igor won the Domenico Losurdo International Prize.

• Introduction1. Plato and the Problem of Authority in Kojève’s Phenomenology of Right2. The Kantian Dimensions of Alexandre Kojève’s Legal and Political Philosophy in Outline of a Phenomenology of Right3. On the Absence of Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie from Kojève’s Phenomenology of Right.4. Kojève and Tocqueville on Tyranny and the Rule of Law5. Alternative Futures of Right in Pashukanis, Kojève, and Bloch6. Kojève’s Unending End of Law?7. Kojève, Carl Schmitt, and the Third as Fiction8. Kojève’s Outline of a Phenomenology of Right: a Phenomenology?9. The Silence of Legitimacy10. From Contract to Status: Kojève as a Legal Thinker11. Legitimacy by Way of “Eternal” Justice: Kojève’s Philosophy of Authority from an Arendtian Perspective12. Law and Tyranny: On Kojève, Strauss, and the Need for Mediations13. Alexandre Kojève and the Dilemmas of the Contemporary Left: Culture, Nature, and Work