Hegel, Kojeve, & The End of History

(4 Credits)

During the last decades we were again and again confronted with a discourse on the end of history, of subjectivity, of art, the death of Man and post-humanity. This discourse took its origin in the lectures on Hegel’s “Phenomenology of the Spirit” that were given by Alexandre Kojève in Paris from 1933 to 1939. In the seminar we will be discussing the works by Kojève and his students, such as Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan.