Atheism

Alexandre Kojeve

Atheism
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Country
United States
Published
23 February 2021
Pages
248
ISBN
9780231180016

Atheism

Alexandre Kojeve

One of the twentieth century?s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Koj?ve was a Russian ?migr? to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Koj?ve wrote a great deal, he published very little in his lifetime, and so the ongoing rediscovery of his work continues to present new challenges to philosophy and political theory. Written in 1931 but left unfinished, Atheism is an erudite and open-ended exploration of profound questions of estrangement, death, suicide, and the infinite that demonstrates the range and the provocative power of Koj?ve?s thought.

Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Koj?ve advances a novel argument about freedom and authority. He investigates the possibility that there is not any vantage point or source of authority-including philosophy, science, or God-that is outside or beyond politics and the world as we experience it. The question becomes whether atheism-or theism-is even a meaningful position since both affirmation and denial of God?s existence imply a knowledge that seems clearly outside our capacities. Masterfully translated by Jeff Love, this book offers a striking new perspective on Koj?ve?s work and its implications for theism, atheism, politics, and freedom.

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