{"product_id":"the-black-circle-a-life-of-alexandre-koj232ve-9780231186568","title":"The Black Circle  A Life of Alexandre Koj232ve","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Circle\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Kojève’s thought as a profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely meditation on human freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Circle\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003eKojève is best known as arguably the best twentieth-century commentator on Hegel. But Love’s incisive book shows that he is much more. This is by far the best, most comprehensive overview of Kojève’s thinking in any language and the only one to draw in detail on Kojève’s Russian background. Clearly, elegantly written and argued, it is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the complexity and range of twentieth-century thought. -- William Todd Mills, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eKnown only in Anglophone letters for a drastically truncated translation of his idiosyncratic and influential Parisian “Lectures on Hegel,” Alexandre Kojève bequeathed to posterity a multitude of tantalizing manuscripts and has finally received the intellectual contextualization and philosophical interpretation he deserves. In his magisterial study Jeff Love uncovers the profound presence of nineteenth-century Russian thought within Kojève’s literary style and his philosophy of negation, finality, perfection, repetition, political community, and radical freedom, such that Kojève emerges from Dostoevsky's underground as a distinctly Russian Hegelian existentialist thinker worthy of serious consideration today. -- Henry W. Pickford, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eIn this excellent intellectual biography, Jeff Love explicates the thought and speculates on the intentions of expatriate Russian Hegelian philosopher Alexandre Kojève. Love’s readings of neglected Russian influences on Kojève (Dostoevsky and philosophers Vladimir Soloviev and Nikolai Fedorov) and of Kojève himself are satisfyingly complex, clear, and accessible. His Kojève is deep, controversial, and a 'philosophical propagandist' still relevant today. -- Donna Orwin, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003eA sophisticated contribution to the study of one of the most enigmatic modern thinkers, this book is simultaneously scholarly and bold. It not only retraces Kojève’s roots in more than a century of Russian literature and thought but also–attuned to the paradoxes and ironies embedded in his kaleidoscopic corpus–orchestrates a spirited exchange among canonical figures of the 'Western tradition,' from Plato and Aristotle to Beckett and Leo Strauss. -- Ilya Kliger, New York University\u003cbr\u003eLove’s thoughtful account and probing interrogation of Kojève’s texts shed light on both the powerful arguments and interpretations that Kojève presents and the bewildering paradoxes and problems that the outcomes of these arguments leave us with. -- James H. Nichols * H-Net *\u003cbr\u003eThis lucid book goes far in clarifying the origins of and the problems with Kojeve's 'end of history' thesis. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eMeticulously researched and boasting an extensive bibliography in multiple languages . . . of interest to philosophers [and] intellectual historians. * Slavic Review *\u003cbr\u003eKojève’s thought is complex, puzzling, and intense—and so is this book about writings and ideas he puts forward. It is no easy reading, but the reader who takes the challenge will be rewarded with a (not \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e) profound grasp of the philosophical thought of this important Russian-European thinker. * Studies in East European Thought *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Abbreviations xi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Russian in Paris 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Russian Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1. Madmen 17\u003cbr\u003e2. The Possessed 44\u003cbr\u003e3. Godmen 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. The Hegel Lectures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e4. The Last Revolution 103\u003cbr\u003e5. Time No More 132\u003cbr\u003e6. The Book of the Dead 161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. The Later Writings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e7. Nobodies 193\u003cbr\u003e8. Roads Or Ruins? 213\u003cbr\u003e9. Why Finality? 257\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Grand Inquisitor 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 291\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography 335\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 347\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49885696229719,"sku":"9780231186568","price":80.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231186568.jpg?v=1737915613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-black-circle-a-life-of-alexandre-koj232ve-9780231186568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}