The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it,… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
“According to Hegel -- to use the Marxist terminology -- Religion is only an ideological superstructure that is born and exists solely in relation to a real substructure. This substructure, which supports both religion and philosophy, is nothing but the totality of human actions realized during the course of universal history, that history in and by which man has created… — Alexandre Kojève Copy Share
“Indeed, we all know that the man who attentively contemplates a thing, who wants to see it as it is without changing anything, is 'absorbed,' so to speak, by this contemplation -- i.e., by this thing. He forgets himself, he thinks only about the thing being contemplates; he thinks neither about his contemplation, nor -- and even less -- about… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share
“Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously--Alexandre Kojeve” — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
“Man must be an emptiness, a nothingness, which is not a pure nothingness (reines Nichts), but something that is to the extent that it… — Alexandre Kojève Copy Share Image
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image