Toward the Concrete: Alexandre Kojève and the Avant-Garde

这个项目探索了在巴黎两次世界大战的背景下，俄罗斯出生的法国哲学家亚历山大·科热夫的工作的新视角。我的研究位于思想史、哲学和比较文学的边缘，考察了科热夫与各种知识网络的联系：俄罗斯先锋派，即瓦西里·康定斯基、超现实主义、精神分析、社会学学院、俄罗斯移民文化和存在主义。其中特别关注的是科热夫思想的跨国和流亡性质。我的目标是通过科热夫的著作和他的网络的棱镜，开启对20世纪30年代法国思想史的新解读。我不仅将通过俄罗斯、德国、佛教和法国的思想追踪科热夫的轨迹，还将在乔治·巴塔耶、雅克·拉康、乔治·阿甘本等人的作品中考察他的哲学的来世。我将展示，通过重新评估科热夫在两次世界大战期间在巴黎的跨国网络，法国现代思想的出现如何被概念化为一种已经全球化、多语言和跨文化的现象。

This project explores new perspectives on the work of Russian-born French philosopher Alexandre Kojève in the context of interwar Paris. Situated on the borders of intellectual history, philosophy and comparative literature, my research examines Kojève's links to various intellectual networks: the Russian avant-garde, namely Vasily Kandinsky, Surrealism, psychoanalysis, the College of Sociology, Russian émigré culture and existentialism. A particular focus is on the transnational and exilic nature of Kojève's thought. My aim is to open up a new reading of the history of French thought in the 1930s through the prism of Kojève's work and his networks. I will not only trace Kojève's trajectory through Russian, German, Buddhist and French ideas, but also examine the afterlife of his philosophy in the works of Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Giorgio Agamben, among others. I will demonstrate how, by revalorizing Kojève's transnational networks in interwar Paris, the emergence of French modern thought can be conceptualised as an already globalised, multilingual and cross-cultural phenomenon.