Alexander Kojeve: An Intellectual Biography - Boris Groys Culture & Society the merging of distinct entities

the merging of distinct entities

his surreal images feel like film stills with stories we can only guess

Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen

After work you order expensive drink after expensive drink until you’re so blackout drunk you can’t remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up in bed with your colleague

first delivered as a lecture in 1967

Alexander Kojeve: An Intellectual Biography - Boris Groys Culture & Society the merging of distinct entitiesIn this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern bureaucracy, Alexandre Kojve, a philosopher of little known writings and profound influence. Kojve was fascinated with Hegel's dialectics and with communism and envisioned a universal empire as the end of history. Kojve drew on Buddhism and also proclaimed himself a Stalinist. At the same time, he was one of the creators of a nascent European