عنوان

Atheism /

(Number (ISBN

0231542291

(Number (ISBN

9780231542296

Erroneous ISBN

0231180004

Erroneous ISBN

9780231180009

Title Proper

Atheism /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alexandre Kojève ; translated by Jeff Love.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxxix, 205 pages)

Text of Note

Originally published by Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1998.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"One of the twentieth century's most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Kojève wrote a great deal, he published very little in his lifetime, and so the ongoing rediscovery of his work continues to present new challenges to philosophy and political theory. Written in 1931 but left unfinished, Atheism is an erudite and open-ended exploration of profound questions of estrangement, death, suicide, and the infinite that demonstrates the range and the provocative power of Kojève's thought. Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority. He investigates the possibility that there is not any vantage point or source of authority--including philosophy, science, or God--that is outside or beyond politics and the world as we experience it. The question becomes whether atheism--or theism--is even a meaningful position since both affirmation and denial of God's existence imply a knowledge that seems clearly outside our capacities. Masterfully translated by Jeff Love, this book offers a striking new perspective on Kojève's work and its implications for theism, atheism, politics, and freedom. Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) was a Russian-born French philosopher and polymath whose influence on contemporary thought via his many disciples and detractors, from Derrida to Lacan to Leo Strauss, is vast. While most famous for his Hegel lectures, Kojève also had exceptional influence while working in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs as an important figure in the creation of the European Economic Community. Jeff Love is Research Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University."--

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JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctv7qghq8

Title

Atheism.

International Standard Book Number

9780231180009

General Material Designation

Athéisme.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Atheism.

Atheism.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Russian & Former Soviet Union.

RELIGION-- Agnosticism.

LIT-- 004240

PHI-- 013000

PHI-- 018000

PHI-- 022000

REL-- 001000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Kojève, Alexandre,1902-1968

Love, Jeff, (G. Jeffrey)

Date of Transaction

20200822103539.0

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