A. Rutkevich. A Manuscript of Kojève from 1940-1941

The paper is the preface to the first publication of Alexandre Kojève’s manuscript “Introduction. Sophia – Philosophy and Phenomenology”. It presents the historical context (German occupation of France) and the place of this text in the evolution of Kojève’s ideas. As this text is the last one written by Kojève in Russian, there is a short description of his style and a comparison of work with his main oeuvre “Introduction into the Reading of Hegel”.