Foreword
Samuel Moyn
Introduction
Igor Shoikhedbrod
1. Plato and the Problem of Authority in Kojève’s Phenomenology of Right
Jonas Schwab-Pflug
2. The Kantian Dimensions of Alexandre Kojève’s Legal and Political Philosophy in Outline of a Phenomenology of Right
Bryan-Paul Frost
3. On the Absence of Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie from Kojève’s Phenomenology of Right
Jacob McNulty
4. Kojève and Tocqueville on Tyranny and the Rule of Law
Edward Andrew
5. Alternative Futures of Right in Pashukanis, Kojève, and Bloch
Igor Shoikhedbrod
6. Kojève’s Unending End of Law?
Jeff Love
7. Kojève, Carl Schmitt, and the Third as Fiction
Massimo Palma
8. Kojève’s Outline of a Phenomenology of Right: A Phenomenology?
William Conklin
9. The Silence of Legitimacy
Hager Weslati
10. From Contract to Status: Kojève as a Legal Thinker
Luis J. Pedrazuela
11. Legitimacy by Way of “Eternal” Justice: Kojève’s Philosophy of Authority from an Arendtian Perspective
Bogdan Ovcharuk
12. Law and Tyranny: On Kojève, Strauss, and the Need for Mediations
Mathew Sharpe
13. Alexandre Kojève and the Dilemmas of the Contemporary Left: Culture, Nature, and Work
Robert Howse and Olga Obolenets
Biography
Igor Shoikhedbrod is an assistant professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation award in 2019 “for an outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the American Political Science Association Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world.” In 2021, Igor won the Domenico Losurdo International Prize.
