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Hegel Dust
A little-known philosopher’s deep influence over the avant-garde, neoconservatives, and the European Union – Ryan Ruby
It has always irritated more scrupulous scholars; Pippin, for example, calls it “incredibly eccentric.” Like Pierre Klossowski’s Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, Leo Strauss’s On Tyranny, and Saul Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel is creative philosophy passing itself off as commentary on a better-known text. Those who do not have had to rely, until now, on the scattered information in James Nichols’s 2007 Wisdom at the End of History —useful as a survey of Kojève’s writings, most of which have yet to be published in the United States—and Jeff Love’s 2021 The Black Circle, which bills itself as a biography, but is really a study of the Russian philosophical, cultural, and historical background of his thought. But after an opening “portrait” in which the character of “our philosopher”—an epithet which enjoys diminishing returns on cuteness each time it is used—is sketched with the broad brushes of anecdote and personal testimony, much of which is dropped as block quotes in the text rather than narrated, intellectual biography is how Filoni proceeds.
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