Half-way through Alexandre Kojève’s six-year lectures on Hegel (1933–1939), the dialectic of struggle and work reaches its culmination in conceptual dyad Napoleon-Hegel as a necessary vehicle for universal emancipation absolute science. Anticipating ‘leap’ into post-historical existence, figure tyranny wisdom marks exception which dialectical process is suspended favour dualism. This article de...

This paper examines a fundamental problem in applied mathematics. How can one model the behavior of materials that display radically different, dominant behaviors at different length scales. Although we have good models for material behaviors at small and large scales, it is often hard to relate these scale-based models to one another. Macroscale models represent the integrated effects of very ...