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Alexandre Kojeve (Paperback, 1994 ed.)
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Alexandre Kojve (1902-1968) was Hegel's most famous interpreter,
reading Hegel through the eyes of Marx and Heidegger
simultaneously. The result was a wild if not hypnotic mlange of
ideas. In this book, Drury reveals the nature of Kojve's
Hegelianism and the extraordinary influence it has had on French
postmodernists on the left (Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, and
Michel Foucault) and American postmodernists on the right (Leo
Strauss, Allan Bloom, and Francis Fukuyama). According to Drury,
Kojve followed Hegel in thinking that reason has triumphed in the
course of history, but it is a cold, soulless, instrumental, and
uninspired rationalism that has conquered and disenchanted the
world. Drury maintains that Kojve's conception of modernity as the
fateful triumph of this arid rationality is the cornerstone of
postmodern thought. Kojve's picture of the world gives birth to a
dark romanticism that manifests itself in a profound nostalgia for
what reason has banished - myth, madness, disorder, spontaneity,
instinct, passion, and virility. In Drury's view, these ideas
romanticize the gratuitous violence and irrationalism that
characterize the postmodern world.
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