Alexandre Kojve (1902-1968) was Hegel's most famous interpreter, reading Hegel through the eyes of Marx and Heidegger simultaneously. The result was a wild if not hypnotic mlange of ideas. In this book, Drury reveals the nature of Kojve's Hegelianism and the extraordinary influence it has had on French postmodernists on the left (Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, and Michel Foucault) and American postmodernists on the right (Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, and Francis Fukuyama). According to Drury, Kojve followed Hegel in thinking that reason has triumphed in the course of history, but it is a cold, soulless, instrumental, and uninspired rationalism that has conquered and disenchanted the world. Drury maintains that Kojve's conception of modernity as the fateful triumph of this arid rationality is the cornerstone of postmodern thought. Kojve's picture of the world gives birth to a dark romanticism that manifests itself in a profound nostalgia for what reason has banished - myth, madness, disorder, spontaneity, instinct, passion, and virility. In Drury's view, these ideas romanticize the gratuitous violence and irrationalism that characterize the postmodern world.

莎蒂亚•B.德鲁里（Shadia B. Drury） 加拿大里贾纳大学（University of Regina）政治学与哲学系教授。另著有《列奥•施特劳斯的政治理念》（The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss，1990）《列奥•施特劳斯与美国右派》（Leo Strauss and the American Right，1999）和《恐怖与文明：基督教、政治学与西方精神》（Terror and Civilization: Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche，2006）。

赵琦 复旦大学哲学学院研究生。