Alexandre Kojève

Alexandre Kojève (Russian: Александр Владимирович Кожевников, Aleksandr Vladimirovič Koževnikov; April 28 1902 – June 4 1968) was a Marxist and Hegelian political philosopher, who had a substantial influence on twentieth-century French philosophy. Kojève was born in Russia, and educated in Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany. He completed his Ph.D., on the Russian mystic Vladimir Soloviev's views on the mystical union of God and man in Christ, under the direction of Karl Jaspers. Early influences included the philosopher Martin Heidegger and the historian of science Alexandre Koyré. Kojève spent most of his life in France, and in 1933-1939 he delivered in Paris a series of lectures on Georg Hegel's work Phenomenology of Spirit. After World War II, Kojève worked in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs as one of the chief planners of the European Common Market. Kojève's uncle was the abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, on whom Kojève wrote and with whom he maintained a correspondence. It... full article at wikipedia