Alexandre Kojeve (1902-1968) was an important and provocative
thinker. Born in Russia, he spent most of his life in France. His
interpretation of Hegel and his notorious declaration that history
had come to an end exerted great influence on French thinkers and
writers such as Raymond Aron, Georges Bataille, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, and Raymond Queneau. An unorthodox
Marxist, he was a critic of Martin Heidegger and interlocutor of
Leo Strauss who played a significant role in establishing the
European Economic Community; a polyglot with many unusual
interests, he wrote works, mostly unpublished in his lifetime, on
quantum physics, the problem of the infinite, Buddhism, atheism,
and Vassily Kandinsky's paintings. In The Black Circle, Jeff Love
reinterprets Kojeve's works, showing him to be an essential thinker
who challenged modern society and its valuation of individuality,
self-interest, and freedom from death. Emphasizing Kojeve'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 Kojeve's account of Hegel and
his neglected later works, clarifying Kojeve's emancipatory
thinking and the meaning of the oft-misinterpreted "end of
history." Combining intellectual history, close textual analysis,
and philosophy, The Black Circle reveals Kojeve's thought as a
profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely
meditation on human freedom.
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