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Introduction to the Reading of Hegel by Alexandre Kojeve

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Source: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Basic Books, 1969; the final chapter only reproduced here. What is Dialectic, according to Hegel? We can give a first answer to this question by recalling a passage from the Encyclopaedia — more exactly, the Introduction to the First Part of the Encyclopaedia, entitled Logic. In § 79 (third edition) Hegel says this: With regard to its form, logic has three aspects (Seiten): (a) the abstract or understandable (versändige) aspect; (b) the dialectical or Negatively rational (vernüntige) aspect, (c) the speculative or positively rational aspect. This well-known text lends itself to two misunderstandings. On the one hand, one might believe that Dialectic reduces to the second aspect of “Logic,” isolated from the other two. But in the explanatory Note, Hegel underlines that the three aspects are in reality inseparable. And we know from elsewhere that the simultaneous presence of the three aspects in question is what gives “Logic” its dialectical

Introduction to the Reading of Hegel by Alexandre Kojeve Alexandre Koj�ve (1934) Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Source : Introduction to the Reading of Hegel , Basic Books, 1969; the final chapter only reproduced here. The Dialectic of the Real and the Phenomenological Method in Hegel What is Dialectic, according to Hegel? We can give a first answer to this question by recalling a passage from the Encyclopaedia — more exactly, the Introduction to the First Part of the Encyclopaedia, entitled Logic . In � 79 (third edition) Hegel says this: With regard to its form, logic has three a

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