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KOJÈVE Alexandre (1902-1968) et QUENEAU Raymond. - Lot 157
KOJÈVE Alexandre (1902-1968) et QUENEAU Raymond.
TAPUSCRIT partly autograph, Introduction to the reading of Hegel. Leçons sur la Phénoménologie de l'Esprit recueillies et publiées par Raymond Queneau, 1946 ; 496 ff . in-4, in red half-maroquin slipcase.
A complete and unique original manuscript of these famous lessons taught by Alexandre Kojève before the Second World War, which were to renew the reading of Hegel and mark the renewal of philosophy in France.
This work is made up of the notes taken by Raymond Queneau, or collected by him from Kojève, of the lessons given by Alexandre
KOJÈVE at the École pratique des Hautes Études from January 1933 to May 1939, under the title La philosophie religieuse de Hegel, which was in reality a commented reading of HEGEL's Phenomenology of Spirit.
Kojève's work appeared under the title Introduction to the Reading of Hegel.
Leçons sur la phénoménologie de l'esprit" (Lessons on the Phenomenology of Spirit), taught from 1933 to 1939 at the École des Hautes Études, collected and published by Raymond Queneau, published by Gallimard in the "Bibliothèque des Idées" collection, in 1947.
This famous Introduction to the Reading of Hegel course had a considerable influence on all post-war French thought, and it is considered that the French philosophical renaissance that culminated would not have been possible without these lessons from Alexandre Kojève. If Raymond
Queneau was one of the most assiduous students of Kojève's course, the same can be said of those who were to become the masters of thought of future generations, who drew particularly on Kojève's admirable lessons on the dialectic of master and slave, or on the concept of recognition, which is central to this dialectic: Jean-Paul
Sartre, Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, Raymond Aron, Michel Leiris, etc.
This monumental "manuscript" consists of the typescript of lecture notes and lessons typed by Raymond Queneau, entirely revised and corrected by Kojève himself, and overloaded with countless autograph corrections and additions by Kojève. It is dated by Queneau "Paris 1946". It consists of 496 leaves, in-4 (27 x 21 cm) for pages 1-156, or in-folio (31 x 21 cm) for pages 157-491, of which 32 pages are entirely autograph by Kojève, and the other 464 pages typed with very abundant corrections and including notably 70 handwritten blocks (forming about 30 p.). The pages are numbered 1 to 491 (plus bis or ter), with other numbers by section. This typescript has nearly 600 autograph lines added by Kojève; and 150 typed lines crossed out. The corrections are very numerous: nearly 250 pages each have about 30 autograph corrections, and nearly 200 have about 15. The vast majority of these corrections concern changes in wording and syntax as well as additions or deletions. Most of these corrections are in the hand of Alexandre Kojève, in black ink, but from the 300th page onwards and on nearly 200 pages, about a third of the corrections are in the hand of Raymond Queneau, in blue ink. At the head of the manuscript is an offprint from the journal Mesures (15 January 1939, edition of 50 copies, this one no. 26): Hegel, Autonomie et dépendance de la conscience de soi, traduit et commenté par A. Kojève (small in-4); it contains nearly 80 corrections in Alexandre Kojève's hand, in pencil and ink, with several lines and numerous terms crossed out and modified. It is an annotated translation of section A of chapter IV of the Phenomenology of Spirit, published as an introduction to the 1947 book. The whole is preceded by a title in Queneau's hand, and another in Kojève's hand; and by an autograph "Editor's Note" signed by Raymond Queneau, written after a draft "Editor's Preface" in Kojève's hand (1 page in-4 each). Let us quote the beginning of Queneau's text: "From November 1932 to May 1939, M. Alexandre Kojève, under the title of Hegel's Religious Philosophy, gave a course at the École des Hautes Études (5th section) which was in reality an annotated reading of the Phenomenology of Spirit, and consequently an introduction to the study of Hegelian philosophy. From January 1933 to May 1939, I followed this course with perfect regularity, and it is the notes I took during these six years that I am now publishing. They have been revised by M. Kojève, but this does not engage his responsibility in any way, since M. Alexandre Kojève's present occupations do not allow him to finalize what would really be his commentary on the Phenomenology of Spirit and his "introduction to the reading of Hegel"... All of the leaves are in very good condition, except for the first title (fire
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