Jeff Love

The Black Circle

A Life of Alexandre Kojeve

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojà  veà â â s works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modernity's valuation of self-interest. Joining intellectual history, close textual analysis, and philosophy, The Black Circle reveals Kojà  veà â â s thought as a profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely meditation on human freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780231186575
• ISBN-10: 0231186576
• Artikelnr.: 59583471

Autorenporträt

Jeff Love

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