Alexandre Kojève : the roots of postmodern politics
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Alexandre Kojève : the roots of postmodern politics
St. Martin's Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-265) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Preface - PART 1: KOJ VE'S HEGELIANISM - Introduction - The Age of Mastery - The Age of Slavery - The End of History - The Lure of Heidegger - The Triumph of the Last Man - PART 2: KOJ VE'S INFLUENCE IN FRANCE - Queneau's Heroics - Bataille's Revenge - Foucault's Follie - PART 3: KOJ VE'S INFLUENCE IN AMERICA - Debate with Leo Strauss - Allan Bloom's Last Men - Francis Fukuyama's Unhappy Consciousness - PART 4: TRUTH, POLITICS AND POSTMODERNISM
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