The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève

ISBN-13: 9780231186568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 376 str.

Jeff Love

Opis

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

Recenzje

The Black Circle is an extraordinary study, in which hardcore philosophical issues are approached at a cosmic level but lyrically, almost as part of an intimate conversation. Alexandre Kojève was so thoroughly at home in German and French culture that his origins in yet a third culture have been neglected. In this book, Jeff Love restores Russian contexts to Kojève's thought on Hegel and the end of history.' Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

O autorze

Jeff Love is professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (2004) and Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), cotranslator of F. W. J. Schelling's Philosophical Investigations Into the Essence of Human Freedom (2006), and editor of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy (2016) as well as Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe (2017).