Chapter 1 Religion, Atheism, and Physics Chapter 2 The Seminar on Hegel: History, Dialectic, and Finitude Chapter 3 Politics and Law Towards the End of History Chapter 4 The End of History: In the Future or in 1806, Communist or Capitalist? Chapter 5 Updating Hegel's System Chapter 6 Conclusions Chapter 7 Epilogue: Philosophy, Politics–and Espionnage
James H. Nichols is professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna College. He has translated Koj_ve's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, and is the author of various works including Epicurean Political Philosophy: The De rerum natura of Lucretius
This crisp and concise but synoptic account of the political
philosophy of Alexandre Kojève brings to vivid life the excitement
and originality of this great Hegelian's thinking. Nichols explains
to the Anglo-American world the compelling theoretical reasons for
Kojève's immense influence on French philosophy, politics, and
political theorizing. The book will be essential reading for anyone
who wants to grasp the deep foundations and sources of continental
political theory-and practice-in the twentieth century.
*Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin*
James Nichols has written a concise and extraordinarily informative
book that uncovers the coherence of thought that underlies the
seemingly contradictory ideas of one of the twentieth century's
greatest philosophers. While Alexandre Kojève may not exactly be a
household word, he was enormously influential in shaping the
intellectual world of the late 20th century, and this book helps us
to better understand why.
*Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last
Man*
Nichols’s book should become the standard introductory text on
Alexandre Kojève. By providing a clear and thoughtful account of
the major aspects of Kojève’s oeuvre, Nichols shows that this
interpreter of Hegel developed a powerful version of modern
political philosophy from which we can still learn today.
*Michael S. Roth, author of Knowing and History: Appropriations of
Hegel in 20th-century France*
It is James H. Nichols, Jr., who can be thanked for giving us the
first (abridged) English translation of Kojeve's Introduction to
the Reading of Hegel, a book that established Kojeve's
well-deserved reputation in France as one of the most original and
influential thinkers of the twentieth century…. Nichols' is
precisely the sort of book that one should keep by one's side….
Nichols has provided us with a concise but comprehensive
introduction to one of the most intriguing philosophers of the
twentieth century.
*Society*
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