9780231180009-0231180004-Atheism

Atheism

ISBN-13: 9780231180009
ISBN-10: 0231180004
Author: Alexandre Kojève
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover 248 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780231180009
ISBN-10: 0231180004
Author: Alexandre Kojève
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover 248 pages

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Atheism (ISBN-13: 9780231180009 and ISBN-10: 0231180004), written by authors Alexandre Kojève, was published by Columbia University Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Metaphysics (Philosophy, Religious) books. You can easily purchase or rent Atheism (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Metaphysics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.36.

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One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Kojève wrote a great deal, he published very little in his lifetime, and so the ongoing rediscovery of his work continues to present new challenges to philosophy and political theory. Written in 1931 but left unfinished, 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 Kojève’s thought.

Ranging across Heidegger, Buddhism, Christianity, German idealism, Russian literature, and mathematics, Kojève advances a novel argument about freedom and authority. He investigates the possibility that there is not any vantage point or source of authority―including philosophy, science, or God―that is outside or beyond politics and the world as we experience it. The question becomes whether atheism―or theism―is even a meaningful position since both affirmation and denial of God’s existence imply a knowledge that seems clearly outside our capacities. Masterfully translated by Jeff Love, this book offers a striking new perspective on Kojève’s work and its implications for theism, atheism, politics, and freedom.

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