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Boris Groys «The Post-human Condition according to Alexandre Kojeve: Life after the End of Love» July 1 2014

According to Kojeve, the post-historical reality is defined by a divorce between the content of human desire, which is the animal hunger for food and sex, and the specifically human, cultural, symbolic form that this desire has historically taken. The pot-historical man struggles only for satisfaction of his desires of the first degree, or animal desires, but not for the desire of the second degree – the properly human, or even, according to Kojeve, “anthropogenic” desire to be recognized. The return of the humans to their elementary animal desires is an effect of the establishing of the universal and homogeneous state but this return simultaneously endangers this state. The post-historical humanity tends to forget its history and even the end of history and the essence of the post-historical condition. Thus, the role of the Sage is to keep the historical memory intact – to defend and reaffirm the historical project of the universal and homogeneous state. The Sage does not strive for a new revolution but prevents the achievements of the previous revolutions from being lost.

Boris Groys - professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, in his numerous works created philosophy of avant-garde and conceptualist art-practices, developed approaches to the interpretation of contemporary art, the author of numerous books including "Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin," (1987), "The Communist Postscript," (2006), "Under Suspicion" (Artmargins, 2002), “Art Power” (MIT Press, 2008), “Introduction to Antiphilosophy” (Verso, 2012)