Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography

By Boris Groys

Unravelleing the mystery of philsopher Alexandre Koj ve

Boris Groys's new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Koj ve, discussing his involvement with Hegel's dialectics, his idea of communism and his vision of a universal empire as the end of history. Koj ve proclaimed himself to be a Stalinist and at the same time was one of the creators of the European Union. His anthropology that describes humans as always negating their nature and their identity, and always desiring to be different from what they are, is highly political. It explains why humans can never be fully satisfied by a political system based on their allegedly "natural" rights.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1804296821
• ISBN13: 9781804296820
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.