Volume 62, Issue 1, Winter 2018
Special Symposium: Rebecca Tuvel and Her Interlocutors
Jorge Varela
Pages 269-283
Alexandre Kojève
Authority/Temporality/Community
This article approaches the political mythology of authority through an interpretation of Kojève’s reading of authority. The deployment of discourses directed at the creation of common meanings arises as the central vector of authority, shared temporalities being the foremost among them. At a time of the presence of authority´s absence the master narratives that aim at bringing together that which remains apart cannot be recognized as unified. What remains as the realm of commonality is the very absence of authority.