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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Brief Biographies of Strauss and Kojève
Overview of the Present Volume
1. The Place of the Strauss-Kojève Debate in the Work of Leo Strauss
Kojève, Hegel, and Heidegger
Modernity, Historical Philosophy, and Historicism
Recovery of the “Natural World”
The Grounding of the Philosophic or Scientific Life
Strauss’s On Tyranny
Kojève’s “Tyranny and Wisdom”
Strauss’s “Restatement”
The Subsequent Correspondence
2. The Philosophic Background of Alexandre Kojève’s “Tyranny and Wisdom”
The Origin of Self-Consciousness and the Desire for Recognition
The Master-Slave Dialectic and the End of History
The End of Philosophy
The Wise Man
The Conditions of Absolute Wisdom
Tyranny and Wisdom
3. The Place of the Bible in the Strauss-Kojève Debate
Kojève, Revelation, and History
Strauss, the Bible, and Modernity
Strauss, the Bible, and “Pseudo-Rationalism”
4. Leo Strauss’s Decisive Reply to Alexandre Kojève
The Defense of Utopias
The Sufficiency of the Classical Framework
The Relation between Wisdom and Rule
The Political Action of the Philosophers
The Best Social Order
Concluding Remarks
5. Who Won the Strauss-Kojève Debate? The Case for Alexandre Kojève in His Dispute with Leo Strauss
The Character of the Debate and the Common Ground
Subjective Certainty and Recognition, Philosophy and the Quest for Truth
The Possibility and Desirability of the Universal and Homogeneous State
Conclusion
6. The Epistolary Exchange between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève
The Genesis of the French Edition of On Tyranny
The Issue of Being
The Letters and the Idea of Philosophy
7. Kojève’s Hegel, Hegel’s Hegel, and Strauss’s Hegel: A Middle Range Approach to the Debate about Tyranny and Totalitarianism
Tyranny, Wisdom, and the Missing Middle Range in On Tyranny
Strauss and the Middle Range in Other Works
Strauss on Ancient versus Modern Wisdom
Kojève’s Hegel and Hegel’s Hegel
Strauss’s Hegel
On Tyranny and Totalitarianism
8. History, Tyranny, and the Presuppositions of Philosophy: Strauss, Kojève, and Heidegger in Dialogue
The Idea of Philosophy
Being and History
9. The Notion of an End of History: Philosophic Origins and Recent Applications
Introduction
Philosophical Background of the End of History: Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx
Kojève’s Treatment of the End of History
The End of History Toward the End of the Twentieth Century: Francis Fukuyama
Conclusion: Strauss’s Abiding Interest in Kojève’s Historical Philosophy
Appendix A: Critical Edition of Alexandre Kojève, “Tyrannie et sagesse”
Appendix B: “Tyranny and Wisdom”
Editorial Notes
Contributors
Index
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