Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit"

Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit""This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century - a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation and to the grasp of the most modern perspective on the eternal questions of philosophy." - Allan Bloom (from the Introduction) During the years 1933-1939, the Russian-born and German-educated Marxist political philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) brilliantly explicated - through a series of lectures - the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in the Phenomenology of Spirit. This collection of lectures - originally compiled by Raymond Queneau and edited for its English-language translation by Allan Bloom - shows the intensity of Kojève's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's Phenomenology. More important - for Kojève was above all a philosopher and not an ideologue - this profound and venturesome work on Hegel will expose the readers to the excitement of discovering a great mind in all its force and power.