Love The Black Circle

A Life of Alexandre Kojève
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54670-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Jeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojève’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 Kojève’s thought as a profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely meditation on human freedom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Love, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Love Jeff:
Gordon Jeff Love (PhD, Russian Literature, Yale) is Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008) and The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi, 2004), the translator (with Johannes Schmidt) of Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith (SUNY, 2006) and of Kojeve’s Atheism (Columbia, 2019), and the editor (with Jeff Metzger) of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy (Northwestern, 2016). His essay “In Praise of Suicide,” on Kojeve, appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books column “The Philosophical Salon (April 11, 2016).”Jeff Love is Research Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of The Overcoming of History in “War and Peace” (2004), editor of Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe (2017), and translator of Kojève’s Atheism (Columbia, 2018), among other works.