20th century · 1902–1968
Who influenced Alexandre Kojève?
Influences and legacy
His Hegel lectures invented the modern 'end of history' and shaped French thought.
Alexandre Kojève was influenced by Georg W. F. Hegel, and went on to influence Jacques Lacan. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Alexandre Kojève?
Alexandre Kojève, born Aleksandr Kozhevnikov in Russia, became a French philosopher and an international civil servant. His seminars brought Hegelian ideas into 20th-century continental philosophy and influenced French philosophy of the century.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Alexandre Kojève?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
Who did Alexandre Kojève influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Alexandre Kojève.
- Jacques Lacan 1901–1981
The line of teachers behind Alexandre Kojève
The longest documented line of influence ending at Alexandre Kojève runs 23 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Alexandre Kojève
Two steps away from Alexandre Kojève
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Alexandre Kojève
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Alexandre Kojève, with no direct line between them.
- Karl Popper 1902–1994
- Émile Benveniste 1902–1976
- Theodor W. Adorno 1903–1969
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980
- Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–2002
- Gilbert Ryle 1900–1976
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980
- Louis Hjelmslev 1899–1965
Alexandre Kojève by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 89
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 33 — #67 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Alexandre Kojève
- Who influenced Alexandre Kojève?
- Georg W. F. Hegel.
- Who did Alexandre Kojève influence?
- Jacques Lacan.
- When did Alexandre Kojève live?
- 1902–1968. The map files Alexandre Kojève under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Alexandre Kojève card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Alexandre Kojève in 33 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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