Core Reading
G.W.F. Hegel, Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy, trans. E.S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson, in three volumes (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1892)
G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction: Reason in History. Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of World (1822-1828 and 1830-1831 versions), trans. H.B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
Alexandre Kojève, Introduction à la lecture de Hegel. Leçons sur La Phénoménologie de l’esprit, ed. Raymond Queneau (Paris : Gallimard, 1947)
Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, ed. Allan Bloom, trans. James H. Nichols, Jr. (New York: Basic Books, 1969).
Susan F. Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009); Susan Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti,” Critical Inquiry 26, no. 4 (Summer, 2000): 821-865.
Additional Readings
Jeff Love, “Alexandre Kojève and Philosophical Stalinism.” Studies in East European Thought 70, no. 4 (2018): 263–71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48700921
Samantha R. Hill, “The scar of identity,” Aeon, March 21, 2023. Available at https://aeon.co/essays/the-philosophical-legacy-of-alexandre-kojeve
Isabel Jacobs, “Introduction to Alexandre Kojève’s ‘Moscow, August 1957’,” Studies in East European Thought 76 (2024): 117–122. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11212-023-09572-8