KOJÈVE Alexandre (1902-1968) ET QUENEAU Raymond - Lot 146

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KOJÈVE Alexandre (1902-1968) ET QUENEAU Raymond - Lot 146
KOJÈVE Alexandre (1902-1968) ET QUENEAU Raymond partly autograph TAPUSCRIT, Introduction à la lecture de Hegel. Leçons sur la Phénoménologie de l'Esprit recueillies et publiées par Raymond Queneau, 1946; 496 ff. in-4, in red half-maroquin slipcase. 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 notes taken by Raymond Queneau, or collected by him from Kojève, of the lectures 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, and 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 professées de 1933 à 1939 à l'École des Hautes Études, réunis et publiées par Raymond Queneau, chez Gallimard dans la collection " Bibliothèque des Idées ", en 1947. This famous course of Introduction to the reading of Hegel exerted a considerable influence on all post-war French thought, and we can say 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, 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 pages, 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 are typed with numerous corrections and include 70 handwritten blocks (forming about 30 pages). The pages are numbered 1 to 491 (plus bis or ter), with also other numbers by sections. This typescript presents nearly 600 autograph lines added by Kojève; and 150 typed lines crossed out. The corrections are very numerous: nearly 250 pages each present about thirty autograph corrections, and nearly 200 present about fifteen. The vast majority of these corrections concern modifications of terms 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 placed an offprint of the magazine Mesures (January 15, 1939, edition at 50 copies, this one n° 26): Hegel, Autonomy and Dependence of Self-Consciousness, translated and commented on by A. Kojève (small in-4); it presents 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 of the "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 Mr. Kojève, but this does not engage his responsibility in any way, as Mr. 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, with the exception of the first title (leaf damaged with tears); the handwritten pages are a little browned and some typewritten leaves show cracks and
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