Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit"

This text links Raymond Queneau (Exercises in Style, Oulipo), Allan Bloom (Closing of the American Mind), Lacan, Sartre...

You name it. Those present at these lectures were some of the most important thinkers and writers of the last 50 years. Hugely influential. Like Klossowski in that regard. Seminal.

It is an exciting document. Kojeve beautifully articulates the link between desre and the 'I' - which runs through Lacan and Zizek and shows how important a thinker Hegel is. He is not the thinker rejected and superseded by Marx - a cruel and distorted reading of history if ever there was one. He is the key figure, next to Nietzsche of the last century.