Alexandre Kojève

Russian philosopher

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Alexandre Kojève was a Russian-born French philosopher known for his influential interpretations of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He significantly impacted 20th-century French philosophy, particularly through his lectures on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in the 1930s.123

Kojève's work emphasized Hegel's concept of the dialectic and the idea of history moving towards a final resolution or "end of history," where human consciousness achieves self-understanding and freedom. His interpretations influenced existentialist thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as political philosophy. Kojève's focus on the struggle for recognition and the role of desire in shaping human consciousness was a key aspect of his Hegelian reading.314

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…1930s, the Russian émigré philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902–68) held a series of seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit that were attended by the most eminent figures in French intellectual society. Kojève’s idiosyncratic reading of Hegel probably had a greater impact on novelists and poets than on philosophers, though it did…
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…1930s, the Russian émigré philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902–68) held a series of seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit that were attended by the most eminent figures in French intellectual society. Kojève’s idiosyncratic reading of Hegel probably had a greater impact on novelists and poets than on philosophers, though it did…
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