Quotes About Kojève

giving up his capacity to love and hate, to create and destroy. At the end of history, Kojève predicted, all the world will become America—a gloomy fate by any French measure.

La Fin de l'Histoire ce n'est pas le bonheur mais l'horreur. Ce n'est pas le premier matin mais le dernier. Ce n'est pas l'euphorie perpétuelle mais les flammes de l'enfer. (ch. 25 Hegel et Kojève africains)

In 1968, Kojève held a meeting with the leaders of the West German Student Movement. His advice: the most important thing for them as student leaders to do would be to learn Ancient Greek. The young radicals were "quite perplexed." Afterwards Kojève went to visit Carl Schmitt, arguing that he's "the only person in Germany worth talking to." "Carl Schmitt: Apocalyptic Prophet of the Counterrevolution