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Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography

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by Boris Groys
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Availability:In StockContributor:Boris GroysPublish date:11/11/2025Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804296820ISBN-10:1804296821UPC:9781804296820Book Category:Political Science, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:World, Europe, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:European, FranceSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCSTJ9BN0B
Unravelling the mystery of Alexandre Kojève

In this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern bureaucracy, Alexandre Kojève, a philosopher of little-known writings and profound influence. Kojève was fascinated with Hegel's dialectics and with communism and envisioned a universal empire as the end of history. Kojève drew on Buddhism and also proclaimed himself a Stalinist. At the same time, he was one of the creators of a nascent European Union. His concept of the human as something defined by negation and unique among animals in being separated from nature is highly political. It explains why humans can never be fully satisfied by a political system based on their allegedly 'natural' rights.

Groys reveals a Kojève with a unique perspective on our political capacities and human condition.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804296820ISBN-10:1804296821UPC:9781804296820Book Category:Political Science, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:World, Europe, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:European, FranceSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCSTJ9BN0B
Boris Groys lives and works in Berlin. He has taught as Professor at the universities in Germany (ZKM), USA (NYU), UK (Courtauld) and some others. He has curated many exhibitions including an exhibition of Kojève's photography (shown in BAK (Utrecht), Palais Tokyo (Paris), Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), OKAT (Shenzhen, China).

His previous books include: Art Power, 2008; An Introduction to Antiphilosophy, 2012; On the New, 2014
Publisher: Verso

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