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| Policy Review: Outline of a Doctrine of French Policy - Recently translated |
| 2004-08-08 |
| This starts to make the French policies since WW-II more understandable. By Alexandre Kojeve (August 27,1945) Editor's note: In the aftermath of World War II, the philosopher Alexandre Kojeve presented the French government his "Outline of a Doctrine of French Policy," a document that remains today of scholarly, historical, philosophical, and—perhaps most startlingly—contemporary interest. This unabridged translation marks its first appearance in English. It was translated from the French by Erik de Vries, who recently completed his doctoral dissertation, "A Kojevean Citizenship Model for the European Union," at Carleton University and now works as a policy analyst for the Canadian government. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #7 What stikes me is how much of what he suggested never happened. I can see how he might have some current French external policies. To bad France is now a muslim colony, for France. |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-08-08 6:34:51 PM |
| #6 "Good jobs for Philosophers, too..." |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-08-08 4:55:29 PM |
| #5 Kojève was one of the most brilliant French (err Russian born) philosophers... and mandatory reading for everyone in Germany concerned with French politics and the formation of the EU. He also was a KGB spy for 30 years... |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-08-08 4:50:59 PM |
| #4 Read the companion article at www.PolicyReview.Org which explains the context of the author, document and plan. That's titled: Kojèveâs Latin Empire From the âEnd of Historyâ to the âepoch of Empiresâ by Robert Howse This is the same publication that brought Robert Kagan's thesis to the world. Policy Review is a publication of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Stanford is Condi Rice's old stomping grounds. I beleive that these articles are the administration's turning over of an Ace that the French poker players were hiding. They must be wondering how many more will get turned over and what this initial bow shot means. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2004-08-08 3:53:44 PM |
| #3 Wow! Facinating read, damn!, it'll take a month or more to digest half of what this paper presents, infers, suggests, et al, ect... dang. |
| Posted by: RJB in JC MO 2004-08-08 3:44:15 PM |
| #2 Interesting primer on Socialism - both practical and philosophical - and quite a bit more. Considering the date, a remarkable document. I'm afraid there's too much in it to digest in a day, lol! But a remarkable attempt, regardless! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-08 9:38:54 AM |
| #1 Finally, there can also be no question of âcausesâ often raised in discussions of the collapse of France: disorder, lack of foresight, domestic political unrest, etc. Was this written in 1945... or yesterday? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-08-08 9:15:31 AM |