Alexandre Kojeve Quotes on Time
Alexandre Kojeve was a Russian-born French philosopher whose lectures on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes from 1933 to 1939 shaped a generation of French intellectuals, including Sartre, Beauvoir, Bataille, Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty. This page collects quotes attributed to Alexandre Kojeve on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Alexandre Kojeve:
“History is the dialectic of master and slave.”
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Attributed to Alexandre Kojeve:
“Philosophy is the wisdom of the wise man at the end of history.”
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“The Authority of the 'man of the moment' pertains to the fact that it is he, par excellence, who represents 'actuality', the Present, the 'real presence' of something in the world (Hegel's Gegenwart ), as opposed to the 'poetic' unreality of the past and the 'utopian' unreality of the future.”
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“It is from Eternity that the representatives of God on earth derive their Authority.”
p. 50