From: N.E.Widder-AT-lse.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 12:50:04 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