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From: dionysus-AT-bway.net
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:40:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Kojeve or Bataille


There's a conservative line on the Phenomenolgy which runs from Kojeve
(later a minister in the French government) to Harold Bloom (author of the
infamous "Closing of the American Mind" and student of the late Kojeve) to
Fukuyama (student of Bloom, author of "The End of History and the Last
Man"? and other related garbage).

Although Bataille praises Kojeve's lectures, it seems as though he was not
convinced by Kojeve's interpretation. I highly recommend Bataille's letter
to Kojeve in the Appendix of "Guilty" (or the longer version in Yale French
Studies "On Bataille"):

"I think of my life - or better yet, its abortive condition, the open wound
that my life is - as itself constituting a refutation of Hegel's closed
system."

In fact, "Theory of Religion" and "The Accursed Share 1-3" is a
Phenomenology which undoes the Phenomenology while simultaneously paying
homage to it.

In order to see how important Hegel's dialectical movement toward
consciousness is for Lacan's remapping of psychoanalysis, see Zizek's
books, especially "The Sublime Object of Ideology" and "Tarrying with the
Negative."

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