Alexandre Kojève

 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/04/masters-and-slaves

Matthew Rose:  "Masters and Slaves," April 2021 First Things Magazine

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In the autumn of 1933, ­Alexandre Kojève announced to his class that history was over. He did not mean that the apocalypse was at hand, that wars and violence had ceased, that human beings would no longer love, mate, and play. Kojève called himself a god and made a radical reading of Christianity, but he claimed to be a philosopher, not a prophet. History was over because the final truth about human life had at last been discovered—in the thought of Hegel, the subject of Kojève’s seminar. It followed that there could be no serious debate, and no real conflict, over the proper organization of political life. Kojève’s announcement, in the face of a looming disaster, was that the ideological conflicts of his age were a mirage. The future belonged not to socialism, liberalism, or fascism, but to a philosophy, known to him alone, which would succeed them all.

Kojève had recently completed his doctorate in Germany, where he spent most of his time studying religious texts and learning Eastern languages. He had no expertise in the seminar’s assigned topic—he initially dismissed Hegel’s thought as “silly”—but his class nonetheless became the most famous in ­twentieth-century philosophy. Though enrollment was perennially low, many seminar attendees would go on to reshape the intellectual landscape of France in the decades to come. The future celebrities included Raymond Aron, Jacques Lacan, ­Maurice ­Merleau-Ponty, Georges Bataille, Emmanuel ­Levinas, Andre Breton, and Eric Weil. They were drawn to the mysterious instructor as much as to the subject matter. Nearly every one of them described Kojève as the most captivating lecturer they had ever encountered. He spoke without a prepared text, and it is thanks to student notes that a complete transcript of the lectures exists.

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       I love French Culture.  I believe God gives to us special affections which we are to use to His glorification. Paul tells us to pray without ceasing. 

    But we are warned to not give heed to false teachers and false prophets. Fathers are to be watchmen for their families, and collectively for their church families, as per their participation in the Priesthood of the Believers. 

https://iep.utm.edu/kojeve/

https://www.sunypress.edu/p-2244-hegels-dialectic-of-desire-and-.aspx