a desire for universal recognition
Kojève’s stressing of the chapter on Lord and Bondsman in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This duality formed around the question of desire, mutual recognition, and intersubjectivity through negation, and is inarguably Kojève’s most enduring legacy in twentieth and twenty-first century thought, so definitively sculpting the discourse around identity and difference that for someone like Lacan, “every reference to ‘Hegel’ should be glossed ‘Kojève’”


