Toward the Concrete: Alexandre Kojève and the Avant-Garde

该项目探索了在两次世界大战之间的巴黎背景下，出生于俄罗斯的法国哲学家亚历山大·科伊<e:1> (Alexandre koj<e:1>)的新视角。位于思想史、哲学和比较文学的边缘，我的研究考察了koj<e:1>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<s:1>移民文化和存在主义。一个特别的焦点是koj<e:1>的思想的跨国和流亡性质。我的目标是通过科约<e:1>夫的作品和他的网络，为20世纪30年代的法国思想史开辟一种新的解读。我不仅会通过俄国、德国、佛教和法国的思想来追溯科伊<e:1>夫的思想轨迹，还会在乔治·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后世。我将通过在两次世界大战之间的巴黎重新评估koj<e:1>的跨国网络来证明，法国现代思想的出现可以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.