Christening the Old Home
Here we are seated in our old Burnt Home, but six years Prior to the Fire. It is a grand time together, eh?
Alexandre Kojève
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/04/masters-and-slaves Matthew Rose: "Masters and Slaves," April 2021 First Things Magazine Article Quote: I n 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...
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