«Предположив, что истина есть женщина» : КОнцеПтУАЛьные ПеРСОнАжи КОжеВА и иХ РОЛь В егО СиСтеме ЗнАния = "Supposing that truth is a woman": КОнцеПтУАЛьные ПеРСОнАжи КОжеВА и иХ РОЛь В егО СиСтеме ЗнАния = Kojève's conceptual characters and their role in his system of knowledge

The famous footnotes on the end of history and post-historical existence have long remained a revolving door in various critical attempts to read Kojève and his intellectual legacy. However, a more attentive approach to his systematic philosophy reveals his concern with ÔÇ£bad infinityÔÇØ rather than with the crafting of ÔÇ£grand narrativesÔÇØ. The question therefore is not only about how and why history ends, but also and perhaps more importantly about why history may never end. Aiming to direct critical attention to this important and yet overlooked aspect of the Kojevean system, this essay follows the road less travelled of misrecognition and its philosophical dramatization in the three conceptual characters of the (successful) tyrant, the (wise) philosopher, and feminine individuality. What brings these three characters together? Why does the philosopher's success depend on the difficult conditions they set for the success of the tyrant and woman? The development of these questions puts into focus ÔÇ£KojèveÔÇØ as a conceptual character cast in his misrecognised system of knowledge.