Category Archives: Alexandre Kojève

Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025 The previous volume of Alexandre Kojève’s (1902–1968) work published by St. Augustine’s Press, The Concept, Time and Discourse (2019), was the introduction to an unfinished magnum … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Posted on July 20, 2025 by stuartelden

This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in … Continue reading →

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

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Books received – Quinn, Stonebridge, Harari, Donato, Anheim & Pasquali, Kojève, Jakobson, Wilson, Fall

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

A pile of mostly recently bought books, including Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History; Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience; Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: … Continue reading →

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Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025

Posted on May 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025 I’m sure this will be interesting, but I’m disappointed it’s only 160 pages. This really feels like it needs someone to do a really major treatment. I’ve read the Jeff … Continue reading →

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Marco Filoni, The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève, trans. David Broder, Northwestern University Press, July 2025

Posted on March 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Marco Filoni, The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève, trans. David Broder, Northwestern University Press, July 2025 Alexandre Kojève is one of the twentieth century’s most seductive and intriguing figures. A product of the Russian merchant bourgeoisie, he became, depending … Continue reading →

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Special issue: Alexandre Kojève and Russian Philosophy – Studies in East European Thought, eds. Isabel Jacobs and Trevor Wilson, March 2024

Posted on February 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Special issue: Alexandre Kojève and Russian Philosophy – Studies in East European Thought, eds. Isabel Jacobs and Trevor Wilson, March 2024 Alexandre Kojève and Russian philosophy, Isabel Jacobs & Trevor Wilson The paradoxical anchoring of Kojève’s philosophizing in the tradition … Continue reading →

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Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on January 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog In 1918 the Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) was caught selling soap on the black-market in Moscow by the Tchèka, the political police … Continue reading →

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Trevor Wilson, Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy – Northwestern University Press, November 2024

Posted on October 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Trevor Wilson, Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy – Northwestern University Press, November 2024 Recounts Kojève’s key role in the pivotal exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western European intellectuals in the early twentieth century This book shines … Continue reading →

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Koyré in Cairo

Posted on September 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading →

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