Full Description
The book brings into relief Kojève's original contributions as a legal thinker through a series of critical dialogues and debates about law and right between Kojève and other influential contributors to legal scholarship across the humanities and social sciences.
These critical dialogues and debates are comparative in character and range from factual ones - such as Kojève's dialogues and debates with Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt - to hypothetical ones - such as Kojève's dialogues and debates with Plato, Kant, Hegel, Soloviev, Tocqueville, Weber, Pashukanis, Bloch, and Husserl. Spotlighting Kojève's distinct contributions to legal scholarship, while also showcasing his broader influence across a range of disciplines - including philosophy, political theory, sociology, law, and transnational studies - the book includes original contributions from eminent editors, translators, and biographers of Kojève, as well as from historians of legal and political thought, specialists on global trade and private international law, statelessness, and public international law.
Kojève and Law will appeal to legal historians, legal theorists, political philosophers, sociologists of law, as well as historians of philosophy and political thought, and graduate students in philosophy, law, and the history of political thought.
Contents
Introduction
1. Plato and the Problem of Authority in Kojève's Phenomenology of Right
2. The Kantian Dimensions of Alexandre Kojève's Legal and Political Philosophy in Outline of a Phenomenology of Right
3. On the Absence of Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie from Kojève's Phenomenology of Right.
4. Kojève and Tocqueville on Tyranny and the Rule of Law
5. Alternative Futures of Right in Pashukanis, Kojève, and Bloch
6. Kojève's Unending End of Law?
7. Kojève, Carl Schmitt, and the Third as Fiction
8. Kojève's Outline of a Phenomenology of Right: a Phenomenology?
9. The Silence of Legitimacy
10. From Contract to Status: Kojève as a Legal Thinker
11. Legitimacy by Way of "Eternal" Justice: Kojève's Philosophy of Authority from an Arendtian Perspective
12. Law and Tyranny: On Kojève, Strauss, and the Need for Mediations
13. Alexandre Kojève and the Dilemmas of the Contemporary Left: Culture, Nature, and Work
