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

Alexandre Kojčve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801492033 ISBN 13: 9780801492037

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1980

Synopsis

"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 his 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.

Table of Contents:

1. In Place of an Introduction

2. Summary of the First Six Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit
Complete Text of the First Three Lectures of the Academic Year 1937–1938

3. Summary of the Course in 1937–1938
Excerpt from the 1938–1939 Annuaire of the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences religieuses

4. Philosophy and Wisdom
Complete Text of the First Two Lectures of the Academic Year 1938–1939

5. A Note on Eternity, Time, and the Concept
Complete Text of the Sixth through Eighth Lectures of the Academic Year 1938–1939

6. Interpretation of the Third Part of Chapter VIII of the Phenomenology of Spirit (conclusion)
Complete Text of the Twelfth Lecture of the Academic Year 1938–1939

7. The Dialectic of the Real and the Phenomenological Method in Hegel
Complete Text of the Sixth through Ninth Lectures of the Academic Year 1934-1935

Appendix
The Structure of the Phenomenology of Spirit

About this title

From the Back Cover

During the years 1933-1939, the Marxist political philosopher Alexandre Kojeve brilliantly explicated--through a series of lectures--the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Based on the major work by Kojeve, this collection of lectures was chosen by Bloom to show the intensity of Kojeve's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0801492033
• ISBN 13: 9780801492037
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287
• Editor: Allan Bloom