Death, Hegel, and Kojève

• Authors: Inwood Michael J.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Stemming from a reading of Hegel’s account of the struggle for recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Kojève argued that death is the central notion of Hegel’s philosophy. I will discuss several themes in relation to this claim of Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel, namely the themes of freedom, individuality, and historicity. I will also discuss Kojève’s reading that Hegel rejects both all conceptions of the afterlife, and too the belief in the afterlife as a manifestation of the “unhappy consciousness”. I will point out flaws of Kojève’s interpretation throughout.

Keywords

EN

Hegel; Kojève; Death; Freedom; Individuality; Historicity; Afterlife

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 68–77

Dates

published

2017-12-15

Contributors

author

Inwood Michael J.

• Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26319/2916