Jeff Love

The Black Circle

A Life of Alexandre Kojève

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Black Circle, Jeff Love reinterprets Kojève's works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modern society and its valuation of individuality, self-interest, and freedom from death. Emphasizing Kojève's neglected Russian roots, The Black Circle puts him in the context of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Russian debates over the proper ends of human life. Love explores notions of perfection, freedom, and finality in Kojève's account of Hegel and his neglected later works, clarifying Kojève's emancipatory thinking and the meaning of the oft-misinterpreted "end of history." Joining intellectual history, close textual analysis, and philosophy to reassess an essential modern theorist, The Black Circle reveals Kojève's thought as a profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely meditation on human freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9780231186568
• ISBN-10: 0231186568
• Artikelnr.: 50210544

Autorenporträt

Jeff Love is professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (2004) and Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), cotranslator of F. W. J. Schelling's Philosophical Investigations Into the Essence of Human Freedom (2006), and editor of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy (2016) as well as Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction: A Russian in Paris 1
I. Russian Contexts
1. Madmen 17
2. The Possessed 44
3. Godmen 70
II. The Hegel Lectures
4. The Last Revolution 103
5. Time No More 132
6. The Book of the Dead 161
III. The Later Writings
7. Nobodies 193
8. Roads Or Ruins? 213
9. Why Finality? 257
Epilogue: The Grand Inquisitor 279
Notes 291
Bibliography 335
Index 347

Rezensionen

The Black Circle is an extraordinary study, in which hardcore philosophical issues are approached at a cosmic level but lyrically, almost as part of an intimate conversation. Alexandre Kojève was so thoroughly at home in German and French culture that his origins in yet a third culture have been neglected. In this book, Jeff Love restores Russian contexts to Kojève's thought on Hegel and the end of history.' Caryl Emerson, Princeton University