Alexandre Kojève
philosopher · 2 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Kojève appears here primarily as a historical reference point for apocalyptic thinking about historical progress—specifically the notion that history culminates in a final, stable end-state, a concept he developed and that Fukuyama later adapted. The course reading invokes Kojève's deterministic philosophy of history to critique what it sees as a limiting fatalism in contemporary discourse around technology and society, arguing that we need to escape such teleological frameworks to genuinely experiment with alternative futures. His presence marks a philosophical precedent for the kind of grand historical narratives the course seems to be questioning rather than endorsing.
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