"The end of history is the death of Man properly speaking. After that death there remains:
1 . living bodies having a human form but deprived of spirit, that is to say of time or creative power;
2. a Spirit which empirically exists, in the form of an inorganic, nonliving reality, as a Book which, not being animal life, no longer has anything to do with time" (p. 388).
And on p. 431 M. Kojeve tells us that in the Classless Society, where "Man remains alive in harmony with Nature," Philosophy will have disappeared which is logical since there is no longer a creative Spirit but that "the rest can be preserved indefinitely: art, love, play, etc.; in short, everything that makes Man happy." What could love and art be for beings deprived of spirit, not only in Hegel's view, but in themselves, if not the art of a bee or the love of an ape. . ? For having, in the pulpit of Notre Dame, spoken of Communist man as an "animal barely superior to the gorilla or chimpanzee," Father Panici found himself called a "slanderer" by R. Garaudy. He is well avenged by M. Kojeve! But the latter must expect not only the objections of the "Trotskyites" of the Revue internationale, but also the anathemas of the "orthodox thinkers" of Pensee, to say nothing of
Pravda's "condemnations." (Fessard's note.)