Introduction to the Reading of Hegel"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth centurya book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation and to the grasp of the most modern perspective on the eternal questions of philosophy."Allan Bloom (from the Introduction) During the years 19331939, the Russian born and German educated Marxist political philosopher Alexandre Kojve (19021968)