Interwar influences on post-war reconstruction

Jorge Varela presented the paper

The attributeless catholicism of Alexandre Kojève

in a special panel on Political Theology at the SEF-FEP joint conference in Royal Holloway University and gave a paper entitled

Reframing the political after the End of History

at the University of Brighton as part of the After the “End of History”: Philosophy, History, Culture, Politics conference.

In these papers Jorge explored the intellectual lineage of Kojève’s political proposals during and immediately after the World War II.