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

Alexandre Kojčve

ISBN 10: 0801492033 / ISBN 13: 9780801492037

Published by Cornell University Press, 1980

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit"
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801492033
• ISBN 13: 9780801492037
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 Kojčve (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 Kojčve's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's Phenomenology. More important—for Kojčve 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.

About the Author

James H. Nichols, Jr., is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. His published work includes a translation of Alexandre Kojeve's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, also from Cornell.