Introduction to the Reading of Hegel

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 Koj�ve (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 Koj�ve's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's Phenomenology. More important?for Koj�ve 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.