Hegel, Kojève e l’idea di un impero latino-europeo

Hegel, Kojève and the Idea of a Latin-European Empire · The aim of my contribution is to show how Alexandre Kojève, with his Esquisse d’une doctrine de la politique française written in 1945, tried to lay the foundations for the construction of a ‘Latin-European’ union, that was radically alternative to the two main world powers leaders of the Cold War: the Soviet and the ‘Anglo-American’. To this end, I’ll divide my contribution into two parts. In the first, we’ll see how Kojève’s very particular Hegelianism, as well as his considerations of Stalinism and the Vichy regime, played a considerable impact on the notion of ‘Empire’, a key concept of the Esquisse. In the second, I’ll analyze the Kojèveian project of the so-called ‘Latin Empire’, as it is thematized in the Esquisse, that opened the way for an unprecedented and original idea of ‘Europe’.