Posthumous Chronicles of Philosophy, Politics, and Espionage. Alexandre Kojève and the Kgb

The essay provide a complicated profile of Alexandre Kojève, a crystal of twentieth-century history, a crossroads between East and West at the height of totalitarianism and the Cold War, when a man floated wisely on the surface of the Iron Curtain, perhaps protected, perhaps very clever, certainly in control of what he could say, what he could make understood. At the border between public writing and private provocation.