Saturday, February 21, 2015
another A.
Phenomenology of spirit: Whenever my mind turns absently to Kojève, which is surprisingly often, he is played by Theo Kojak. There stands the prophet, gesturing before Lacan, Bataille, Merleau-Ponty, Queneau, Breton, Sartre (?). His head shines. The Battle of Stalingrad was the battle between the Right Hegelians and the Left Hegelians, he intones. Who loves ya, baby?
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The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the sunglasses are worn at night.
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ReplyDeletethe conversation always comes around to babies
and Hegel.
And for him, boats.
(Kimiko Hahn, "Earshot," from Earshot (1992))
"Fun fact: Hannah Arendt attended Kojève’s lectures on Hegel at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, with George Bataille, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alexandre Koyré, André Breton, Jacques Lacan, & others."
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