Alexandre Kojève
An Intellectual Biography
$34.99
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2026
Summary
Boris Groys’s new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with Hegel’s dialectics, his idea of communism and his vision of a universal empire as the end of history.
Kojève proclaimed himself to be a Stalinist and at the same time was one of the creators of the European Union. His anthropology that describes humans as always negating their nature and their identity, and always desiring to be different fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804296820 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1804296821 |
| Author: | Boris Groys |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 169g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
Kojève’s lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century – Perry Anderson
Kojève’s originality and courage, it must be said, is to have perceived the impossibility of going any further, the necessity, consequently, of renouncing the creation of an original philosophy and, thereby, the interminable starting-over which is the avowal of the vanity of thought – Georges Bataille
Kojève had a major impact on the intellectual life of the continent. Among his students ranged such future luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron – Francis Fukuyama
Groys invites readers to make Kojève their own: to find new meanings in his texts and go beyond them, updating Kojève for the present moment just as Kojève himself claimed to update Hegel for the twentieth century. – Isabel Jacobs * Cleveland Review of Books *
Boris Groys
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
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