Description
Immanuel Kant's philosophical system, Kojeve 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 justification of the ideas of God and the immortality of the soul, Kant outlines the material conditions of possibility for revolutionary action within the twin horizons of accomplished and recollected history.
Kant forms the centrepiece of Alexandre Kojeve's intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophy
About the Author
ALEXANDRE KOJEVE (1902-1968) was one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. His famous lectures on Hegel and his provocative end-of-history thesis left an indelible mark on contemporary thought. By the end of the Second World War, he abandoned academic philosophy to embark on a diplomatic career. While occupying an influential position in French foreign trade diplomacy, Kojeve worked on a series of manuscripts which largely remained unpublished until well after his death. Initially dismissed as post-historical irony and play, Kojeve's post-war philosophical writings should open new perspectives on how we became post-historical and where we go from here.
Reviews
In Kojeve Kant finally found the reader prepared to philosophise with rather than about him. Beginning where Kant ends, in the Doctrine of Method, Kojeve addresses fundamental questions to the critical philosophy situating it as the final gesture of a philosophy of transcendence before its transformation into the Hegelian system of knowledge. Hager Weslati's lucid translation finally makes Kojeve's Kant available in English, providing a key text to understanding the full span and ambition of Kojeve's history of philosophy as well as access to a unique episode in the French reception of Kant's critical philosophy. -- Howard Caygill
Kojeve was a magician of thought. Undoubtedly, he was the inventor of the last grand narrative of philosophy and history, of which the neo-conservative ideologue Fukuyama was but a mediocre imitator. -- Pierre Macherey
Kojeve's lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century. -- Perry Anderson
Kojeve spoke of Hegel's religious philosophy, the phenomenology of Spirit, master and slave, the struggle for prestige, the in-itself, the for-itself, nothingness, projects, the human essence as revealed in the struggle onto death and in the transformation of error into truth. Strange theses for a world beleaguered by fascism! -- Louis Althusser
Alexandre Kojeve's originality and courage, it must be said, is to have perceived the impossibility of going any further, the necessity, consequently, of renouncing the creation of an original philosophy and, thereby, the interminable starting-over which is the avowal of the vanity of thought. -- Georges Bataille
A brilliant Russian emigre who taught a highly influential series of seminars in Paris. Kojeve had a major impact on the intellectual life of the continent. Among his students ranged such future luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron. -- Francis Fukuyama
Book Information
ISBN 9781804290651
Author Alexandre Kojeve
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 307g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 17mm
Kant forms the centrepiece of Alexandre Kojeve's intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophy
About the Author
ALEXANDRE KOJEVE (1902-1968) was one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. His famous lectures on Hegel and his provocative end-of-history thesis left an indelible mark on contemporary thought. By the end of the Second World War, he abandoned academic philosophy to embark on a diplomatic career. While occupying an influential position in French foreign trade diplomacy, Kojeve worked on a series of manuscripts which largely remained unpublished until well after his death. Initially dismissed as post-historical irony and play, Kojeve's post-war philosophical writings should open new perspectives on how we became post-historical and where we go from here.
Reviews
In Kojeve Kant finally found the reader prepared to philosophise with rather than about him. Beginning where Kant ends, in the Doctrine of Method, Kojeve addresses fundamental questions to the critical philosophy situating it as the final gesture of a philosophy of transcendence before its transformation into the Hegelian system of knowledge. Hager Weslati's lucid translation finally makes Kojeve's Kant available in English, providing a key text to understanding the full span and ambition of Kojeve's history of philosophy as well as access to a unique episode in the French reception of Kant's critical philosophy. -- Howard Caygill
Kojeve was a magician of thought. Undoubtedly, he was the inventor of the last grand narrative of philosophy and history, of which the neo-conservative ideologue Fukuyama was but a mediocre imitator. -- Pierre Macherey
Kojeve's lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century. -- Perry Anderson
Kojeve spoke of Hegel's religious philosophy, the phenomenology of Spirit, master and slave, the struggle for prestige, the in-itself, the for-itself, nothingness, projects, the human essence as revealed in the struggle onto death and in the transformation of error into truth. Strange theses for a world beleaguered by fascism! -- Louis Althusser
Alexandre Kojeve's originality and courage, it must be said, is to have perceived the impossibility of going any further, the necessity, consequently, of renouncing the creation of an original philosophy and, thereby, the interminable starting-over which is the avowal of the vanity of thought. -- Georges Bataille
A brilliant Russian emigre who taught a highly influential series of seminars in Paris. Kojeve had a major impact on the intellectual life of the continent. Among his students ranged such future luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron. -- Francis Fukuyama
Book Information
ISBN 9781804290651
Author Alexandre Kojeve
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 307g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 17mm
