From: N.E.Widder-AT-lse.ac.uk Date: ?4JM!>+u3>R 09 Aug 96 15:40:40 GMT Hi everybody, I am currently making my way through Kojeve's book on Hegel and was wondering what people think about it. From what I've read (about 70 pages) it seems more than just a little selective, not only in the way Kojeve tries to square Hegel and Marx or, perhaps better, to account for Marx through Hegel, but in his avoidance of most if not all of the important and interesting aspects of Hegelian ontology. The chapter entitled "Summary of the First Six Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit" is an incredible misnomer: it's a fairly thorough reading of the first half of chapter 4, along with a selective reading of the rest of chapter 4 and chapter 6, with a rather bizarre one page on chapter 5 that has been twisted to fit into the readings of chapters 4 and 6. At least, that's the way it appears to me. Does this all change in the rest of the book? I ask this mainly because my understanding is that many French theorists (including Deleuze?) substituted Kojeve's reading of Hegel for actually reading Hegel themselves. Nathan n.e.widder-AT-lse.ac.uk
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