Abstract
Since the Second World War, developments in French philosophy and historiography have had an enormous impact on the ways in which we understand change over time. The French theoretical approach to history has itself been deeply informed since the 1930s by an original understanding of Hegel, and since the mid 1950s by an equally novel reading of Nietzsche. In this essay, I shall discuss the work of Alexandre Koj<egv>ve, best known as the principal interpreter of Hegel in the twentieth century.[3] By examining his interpretation, we shall confront some of the major issues that arise in historical thinking's confrontation with modernity, and come to comprehend the development and power of one of the most important philosophers of history in the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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