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The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève
ISBN: 9780231546706
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Kojève Alexandre 1902–1968; Philosophers -- France -- Biography;

Jeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojève's works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modernity's valuation of self-interest. Joining intellectual history, close textual analysis, and philosophy, The Black Circle reveals Kojève's thought as a profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely meditation on human freedom.

Gordon Jeff Love (PhD, Russian Literature, Yale) is Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008) and The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi, 2004), the translator (with Johannes Schmidt) of Schelling's Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith (SUNY, 2006) and of Kojeve's Atheism (Columbia, 2019), and the editor (with Jeff Metzger) of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy (Northwestern, 2016). His essay "In Praise of Suicide," on Kojeve, appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books column "The Philosophical Salon (April 11, 2016)."Jeff Love is Research Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of The Overcoming of History in "War and Peace" (2004), editor of Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe (2017), and translator of Kojève's Atheism (Columbia, 2018), among other works.