Atheism

Atheism is an erudite and open-ended exploration of profound questions of estrangement, death, suicide, and the infinite that demonstrates the range and the provocative power of Alexandre Kojève's thought.

LoveJeff: Gordon Jeff Love (PhD, Russian Literature, Yale) is Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008) and The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi, 2004), the translator (with Johannes Schmidt) of Schelling's Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith (SUNY, 2006) and of Kojeve's Atheism (Columbia, 2019), and the editor (with Jeff Metzger) of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy (Northwestern, 2016). His essay 'In Praise of Suicide,' on Kojeve, appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books column 'The Philosophical Salon (April 11, 2016).'Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) was a Russian-born French philosopher and polymath whose influence on contemporary thought via his many disciples and detractors, from Derrida to Lacan to Leo Strauss, is vast. While most famous for his Hegel lectures, Kojève also had exceptional influence while working in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs as an important figure in the creation of the European Economic Community.Jeff Love is Research Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève (Columbia, 2018) and The Overcoming of History in 'War and Peace' (2004). He is also cotranslator of F. W. J. Schelling's Philosophical Investigations Into the Essence of Human Freedom (2006) and editor of Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe (2017).