Boris Groys lives and works in Berlin. He has taught as Professor at the universities in Germany (ZKM), USA (NYU), UK (Courtauld) and some others. He has curated many exhibitions including an exhibition of Kojève's photography (shown in BAK (Utrecht), Palais Tokyo (Paris), Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), OKAT (Shenzhen, China).His previous books include: Art Power, 2008; An Introduction to Antiphilosophy, 2012; On the New, 2014

Kojève's lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century

• Introduction: What does it mean to be human?I. History as Self-Negation1. Struggle for Recognition2. The Self-Reflection3. The Anthropogenic DesireII. From Sophia to Stalin and Back1. Political Androgyny2. Paradisal Work3. Napoleon4. Stalin5. The Sage6. The Working State7. History as MagicIII. The Giving Empire1. The Christian Empire2. The Ideocratic State3. The Latin Empire4. Colonialism and the Giving Empire5. Bataille and Marshall PlanIV. Becoming a Sage1. Painting the Totality2. Visualization of LogosEpilogue: How to remain human after the End of History?

Boris Groys lives and works in Berlin. He has taught as Professor at the universities in Germany (ZKM), USA (NYU), UK (Courtauld) and some others. He has curated many exhibitions including an exhibition of Kojève's photography (shown in BAK (Utrecht), Palais Tokyo (Paris), Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), OKAT (Shenzhen, China).His previous books include: Art Power, 2008; An Introduction to Antiphilosophy, 2012; On the New, 2014

Kojève's lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century

• Introduction: What does it mean to be human?I. History as Self-Negation1. Struggle for Recognition2. The Self-Reflection3. The Anthropogenic DesireII. From Sophia to Stalin and Back1. Political Androgyny2. Paradisal Work3. Napoleon4. Stalin5. The Sage6. The Working State7. History as MagicIII. The Giving Empire1. The Christian Empire2. The Ideocratic State3. The Latin Empire4. Colonialism and the Giving Empire5. Bataille and Marshall PlanIV. Becoming a Sage1. Painting the Totality2. Visualization of LogosEpilogue: How to remain human after the End of History?

Boris Groys lives and works in Berlin. He has taught as Professor at the universities in Germany (ZKM), USA (NYU), UK (Courtauld) and some others. He has curated many exhibitions including an exhibition of Kojève's photography (shown in BAK (Utrecht), Palais Tokyo (Paris), Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), OKAT (Shenzhen, China).His previous books include: Art Power, 2008; An Introduction to Antiphilosophy, 2012; On the New, 2014

Kojève's lectures made a deep impression on his listeners - to more various and influential effect than probably any others in France this century

• Introduction: What does it mean to be human?I. History as Self-Negation1. Struggle for Recognition2. The Self-Reflection3. The Anthropogenic DesireII. From Sophia to Stalin and Back1. Political Androgyny2. Paradisal Work3. Napoleon4. Stalin5. The Sage6. The Working State7. History as MagicIII. The Giving Empire1. The Christian Empire2. The Ideocratic State3. The Latin Empire4. Colonialism and the Giving Empire5. Bataille and Marshall PlanIV. Becoming a Sage1. Painting the Totality2. Visualization of LogosEpilogue: How to remain human after the End of History?