culture. Kojeve, Alexandre Koyrh, and Eric Weil, three superior intel-
But Rorty rejects the radi- lects "against whom I did not dare measure myself." Kojeve, cal social and political con- the most brilliant and most mysterious, gave a famous semi- clusions-a wholesale re-nar on Hegel's Phenomenology with a group of auditors that jection of the liberal, included Raymond Queneau, Jacques Lacan, Maurice bourgeois order-that the Merleau-Ponty, and occasionally Aron. His esoteric interpre-...