Manuscript of A. Kojève “Sofia, Philo-Sofia and Phenomenology”

Abstract

Recently founded out in the archive of G. Bataille manuscript of Alexandre Kojève “Sophia, Philo-sophia, Phenomenology” is only partly deciphered. In the Introduction to manuscript’s § 3
publication we examine the circumstances of time and place of its writing; the content of the manuscript is compared with other works of Kojève of this period (1930–1950), when his exposition of Hegel evidently contained a trace of Marxist interpretation