Alexandre Kojève
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit".
Cornell University Press, 1980. Agora Paperback Editions, Cornell Paperbacks. First printing. 0801492033 xiv/287 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"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."