Weslati, Hager (2021) Kojève's Sophia : bored girls and the philosopher in the striped pyjamas. In: Kojève: here and now: international workshop 2021; 1 - 3 Sept. 2021, Held online. (Unpublished)

Abstract

The figure of the 'Sophia' appears with great consistency across the entire oeuvre of Alexandre Kojève. Until the early 1930s, 'Sophia' was central to his intellectual grounding in Russian philosophy via the religious metaphysics of Soloviyev. A decade later, this potent gendered trope is used to frame the politics of the Russian version of his 'system of knowledge'. In parallel with the 'Eastern' resonances of the Kojèvean 'Sophia', the gendering of the concept (Begriff) marks pivotal moments in Kojève's philosophical system, namely in the intermediary plane of 'objective-reality'. This paper considers this neglected thread in critical interpretations of Kojève's master-slave dialectic, his philosophy of discourse, his 'end of history thesis' as well as his nude photography.

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