Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 78 
Greg Johnson Interviews F. Roger Devlin on Alexandre Kojève & the End of History

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Greg Johnson interviews Dr. F. Roger Devlin about the ideas of his book Alexandre Kojève and the Outcome of Modern Thought ^[4] (Lanham, M.D.: The University Press of America, 2004). Topics discussed include:

• Alexandre Kojève’s life
• His famous Hegel seminar in Paris in the 1930s
• Kojève’s most important students
• Kojève’s book Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit ^[5]
• Kojève’s idea of the End of History
• Kojève’s historicism vs. the classical idea of human nature
• Historicism and human evolution, eugenics, and genetic engineering
• The three phases of Kojève’s thinking about the end of history
• Kojève and the thesis of the convergence of Communism and Capitalism
• Kojève’s idea of Americanism as the end of history
• Kojève’s idea of the Universal Homogeneous State and gobalization
• Kojève’s “Japanese” conception of post-historical culture
• The end of history as the end of man
• Kojève and the French resistance during World War II
• Kojève’s post-WWII career as a French bureaucrat who helped create the European Economic Community
• The Left Kojèvians: French postmodernism
• The Right Kojèvians: the Straussians
• Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man ^[6]
• Today’s Straussians and promoters of the Universal Homogeneous State