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History ended, according to Hegel according to Kojve, with the establishment and proliferation in Europe of states organized along Napoleonic rational, bureaucratic, homogenous, atheist. This state lives in some tension with the popular slogan that helped give it Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. But there is now also totalitarianism the only new kind of regime, according to Arendt, created since the national state. Man is now in charge of nature, technology, and society; much of political life has become a gavotte elaborating the meaning of the Napoleonic model. This interpretation, however opposed it seems to common sense, has been influential, particularly in France where the course of existentialism is unintelligible without taking it into account. Professor Cooper argues that it is inherently plausible and examines the arguments of Hegel and Kojve to reveal its consistency and explanatory power. And he applies it to more contemporary events the experience of the atomic bomb, the Gulag system of extermination, and the growth of multinational corporations. The work concludes by pulling together the presuppositions and theories of the totalitarian system, the Hegelian version of t

Author

Barry Cooper. --

Publisher

University of Toronto Press; Univ of Toronto Pr

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802056252

Subjects

Philosophy, Political Science, Humanities