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Posted: 24 Feb 2021


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Poetry of Thought
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 Dinesh
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At the heart of Kojeve’s reading is almost violently political. He conceives of the ‘Phenomenology’ of Napoleonic-Stalinist. Plato, Hegel, Heidegger and Alexadre Kojeve himself exemplify the temptation of the thinker by authoritarian despotism, by the desire to “become the Sage of the State” or in Heidegger’s specific case “the Fuhrer’s Fuhrer.” The culmination of history which Hegel salutes in Napoleon, Kojeve reincarnates in Stalin, in that totally a rationalized control of temporalized Utopia which makes of Stalinism at once the apex and the closure of history. This perspective inspires Kojeve’s elucidation of the “Master/Servant” dialectic in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology’, the most influential philosophical parable after that of Plato’s Cave. In this celebrated narrative, analytic rigor takes on scenic vitality and difficult to define but somehow lyric tension. It might be enlightening to state a recitation of Hegel’s text in conjunction with Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’ and Genet’s ‘Maids and Brecht’s Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti’ with Kojeve’s ‘Lecons’ as program notes. ~ Page 92
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THE POETRY OF THOUGHT
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