Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit - Alexandre Koj�ve

\n \nThis 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)\n \nDuring 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.\n \nTable of Contents: \n \n1. In Place of an Introduction\n \n2. Summary of the First Six Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit \nComplete Text of the First Three Lectures of the Academic Year 1937-1938\n \n3. Summary of the Course in 1937-1938 \nExcerpt from the 1938-1939 Annuaire of the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes, Section des Sciences religieuses\n \n4. Philosophy and Wisdom \nComplete Text of the First Two Lectures of the Academic Year 1938-1939\n \n5. A Note on Eternity, Time, and the Concept \nComplete Text of the Sixth through Eighth Lectures of the Academic Year 1938-1939\n \n6. Interpretation of the Third Part of Chapter VIII of the Phenomenology of Spirit (conclusion) \nComplete Text of the Twelfth Lecture of the Academic Year 1938-1939\n \n7. The Dialectic of the Real and the Phenomenological Method in Hegel \nComplete Text of the Sixth through Ninth Lectures of the Academic Year 1934-1935\n \nAppendix \nThe Structure of the Phenomenology of Spirit\n