1st Edition
Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice Time and Tyranny in the Works of Alexandre Kojève
Biography
Gary M. Kelly is an attorney and political scientist. He has advised over twenty-five developing countries on behalf of multilateral institutions. He has taught political economy and theory and in the United States, Eurasia, and North Africa. His recent research and writing includes work on Kojève, Rousseau, and Gilson.
"Kelly’s study of Kojève aims to correct two generations of misinterpretation. It is unique because: (1) he provides the first comprehensive analysis of Kojève’s writings that includes material published after the famous lectures on Hegel delivered during the 1930s, and (2) it proceeds from the inside, from Kojève’s phenomenology of time, to the outside, to history as a concluded sequence. The theorists of modern tyranny, of which exemplars from Karimov to Chavez, from Atlantic to Pacific across many time zones, will have to come to grips, even if they cannot come to terms, with Kelly’s controversial Kojève. For those few capable of enjoying Kojève’s Glasperlenspiel, this book is something no one could anticipate: a new interpretation!"
--Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
