In this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern bureaucracy, Alexandre Kojève, a philosopher of little-known writings and profound influence. Kojève was fascinated with Hegel’s dialectics and with communism and envisioned a universal empire as the end of history. Kojève drew on ...
In this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern bureaucracy, Alexandre Kojève, a philosopher of little-known writings and profound influence. Kojève was fascinated with Hegel’s dialectics and with communism and envisioned a universal empire as the end of history. Kojève drew on Buddhism and also proclaimed himself a Stalinist. At the same time, he was one of the creators of a nascent European Union. His concept of the human as something defined by negation and unique among animals in being separated from nature is highly political. It explains why humans can never be fully satisfied by a political system based on their allegedly ‘natural’ rights.
Groys reveals a Kojève with a unique perspective on our political capacities and human condition.
作者简介
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Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, and since 2005, the Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU. He has published numerous books including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, and The Communist ...
Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, and since 2005, the Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU. He has published numerous books including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, and The Communist Postscript.
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这是一部"非传记的传记"——作者坦承此书"并非任何传统意义上的传记"，而是由一系列简短、相对独立、以作者特有的轻快节奏展开的主题性随笔构成。他将科耶夫从福山式的"自由主义民主凯旋"解读中拯救出来，重新赋以激进的反消费主义内涵。科耶夫所设想的后历史时代并非资本主义的胜利，而是一种"反消费主义的禁欲生活方式"——在这种生活方式中，虚无被揭示为人类存在的唯一内容。他将科耶夫描绘为一个现代官僚制的兰波... 这是一部"非传记的传记"——作者坦承此书"并非任何传统意义上的传记"，而是由一系列简短、相对独立、以作者特有的轻快节奏展开的主题性随笔构成。他将科耶夫从福山式的"自由主义民主凯旋"解读中拯救出来，重新赋以激进的反消费主义内涵。科耶夫所设想的后历史时代并非资本主义的胜利，而是一种"反消费主义的禁欲生活方式"——在这种生活方式中，虚无被揭示为人类存在的唯一内容。他将科耶夫描绘为一个现代官僚制的兰波——一位将哲学转化为制度行动的思想家，终极目标是通过动员制度的力量来创造一个普遍自我意识的社会"。同時揭示了尼采对科耶夫的深层影响，关于"人-神"的论述虽然回应索洛维约夫，但本质上是尼采式的——超人。人的克服，带着其全部尼采式意涵，"就是否定之否定——因而，就是历史的终结"。 (展开)