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