Written and translated because the work of Alexandre Kojève has remained largely unknown until now, this bibliography lists all the publications we have found in the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of France.
Note I: This list will be regularly updated, edited and expanded upon
Note II: Kojève has a lot of work hidden behind the vaults of French institutions, namely those of academia and certain government agencies. Thus a lot of his work is simply inaccessible due to classification and French elitism.
Writings published by Kojève
1926
The Religious Philosophy of Vladimir Soloviev, Philosophy Dissertation, Heidelberg,1926 [nr. inv. Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg : W 3651]. [in German]
1927
Review of LEANG K'i-Teh'ao [Chi-Chao Liang], The Conception of Law and the Theories of Lawyers on the Eve of Ch'in (1926), in Eurasian Chronicle, no 8, 1927, p . 57-61 [in Russian].
1929
Record of K. Ambrozaitis, The Political Science of Vladimir Soloviev, Die Staatslehre Wladimir Solowieffs, (1927), in archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, vol. 61, 1927, notebook 1, p. 199 [in German].
1930
Vladimir Soloviev's Philosophy of History, Die Geschichtsphilosophie Wladimir Solowjeffs in The Russian Thought, Der russische Gedanken, 1930, notebook 3, p. 305-324 [in German].
1931
Report by: René Grousset, Indian Philosophical System, Les Philosophies indiennes, in Review of the history of philosophy, Revue d’histoire de la philosophie, no. 5, July-December 1931, p. 416-418 [in French].
1932
Review by: Henri Gouhier, The Life of Auguste Comte (1931), in Journal for social research, Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, Volume 1, 1932, notebook 1/2, p. 152-53. [in German]
Review by: Nyoti Sakurazawa, Single principle of philosophy and science from the Far East, Principe unique de la philosophie et de la science d’Extrême-Orient, (1931), in Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 1932, no. 9-10 (September-October), p. 306-308. [in French]
[Signed by Alexandre Koyré, the manuscript was found in Kojève's papers with the annotation in Russian: "published under the name of Koyré".]
Review by: J. Perrin, P. Langevin, G. Urbain, L. Lapique, Ch. Perez, L. Plantefol, introduction by L. Brunschvicg, The current direction of science, L’orientation actuelle des sciences, (1930), in Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 1932, no. 9-10 (September-October), p. 315-318. [in French]
[Signed by Alexandre Koyré, the manuscript was found in Kojève's papers with the annotation in Russian: "published under the name of Koyré".]
1933
Review by: Karl Jaspers, The Spiritual situation of the time, Die geistige Situation der Zeit, (1931), in Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 1933, volume 115, no 1-2, (January-February), p. 137-139. [in German]
Review by: René Poirier, Essay on some characters of the notions of space and time, Essay über einige Charaktere der Begriffe von Raum und Zeit, (1932), in Deutsche Literaturzeitung, Notebook 1 (January), 1933, p . 12-17. [in German]
Review by: René Poirier, Remarks on the probability of inductions (1931) in Deutsche Literaturzeitung, Notebook 16 (April), 1933, p. 726-729 [in German]
Review by: Georg Misch, philosophy of life and phenomenology. A discussion of Dilthey's direction with Heidegger and Husserl, Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie. Eine Auseinandersetzung der Dilthey’ schen Richtung mit Heidegger und Husserl, (1931), in Recherches philosophiques, volume 2, 1932-1933, p. 470-475. [in German]
Review by: Julius Kraft, from Husserl to Heidegger. Criticism of the phenomenological Philosophy, von Husserl zu Heidegger. Kritik der phänomenologischen Philosophie, (1932) in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 2, 1932-1933, p. 475-477. [in german]
Review by: Rudolf Zocher, Husserl's Phenomenology and Schuppe's Logic. A contribution on the critique of intuitionist ontologism in the idea of immanence, Husserls Phänomenologie und Schuppes Logik. Ein Beitrag zur Kritik des intuitionistischen Ontologismus in der Immanenzidee, (1932), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 2, 1932-1933, p. 477-480. [in german]
Review by: Roman Ingarden, The literary work of art. An investigation from frontier of Ontology, Logic and Literary Studies, Das literarische Kunstwerk. Eine Untersuchung aus dem Grenzgebiet der Ontologie, Logik und Literaturwissenschaft (1931), in Recherches philosophiques, t. II, 1932-1933, p. 480-486. [in German]
Translation from the German of: Leo Strauss, Some remarks on the political science of Hobbes, in Philosophical Researches, Volume 2, 1932-1933, p. 609-622.
[The translation is unsigned, but the original manuscript of Strauss in German as well as the manuscript of the French translation (in Kojève's hand), are in Kojève's papers. See also the letter from Strauss to Kojève of December 17, 1932: “The Strauss-Kojève Correspondence”, in L. Strauss, On Tyranny edited by V. Gourevitch and M. S. Roth, New York, The Free Press, 1991, p. 222 (fr. tr.: Paris, Gallimard, 1997, p. 260)].
1934
“The religious metaphysics of Vladimir Solovyov”, in Revue d’histoire et de philosophie philosophies, 1934, no 6, p. 534-554, 1935, and number 1-2, p. 110-152.
Review by: Werner Illemann, Husserl's pre-phenomenological philosophy, Husserls vor-phänomenologische Philosophie (1932), In Recherches philosophiques, Volume 3, 1933-1934, p. 428-429. [in German]
Review by: Friedrich Weidauer, Critique of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology. First part of a critique of contemporary philosophy, Kritik der Transzendental-Phänomenologie Husserls. Erster Teil einer Kritik der Gegenwartsphilosophie (1933), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 3, 1933-1934, p. 429. [in German]
Review of The Phenomenology. Study Days of the Thomist Society (without indication of year, but 1933), in Philosophical Research, Volume 3, 1933-1934, p. 429-431.
Book review: Arthur Eddington, The Expanding Universe (1933); James Jeans, The New Background of Science (1933); Hermann Weyl, The Open World. Three readings on the metaphysical implications of science (1932), in Philosophical Research, Volume 3, 1933-1934, p. 464-466.
"The Philosophy of Sciences of M. Bavinck", in Review of Synthesis, Volume 8, October 1934, No. 2, p. 429-431 [Review of: Bernhard Bavinck, Results and Problems of the Natural Sciences(1933)]
Review by: Gerhard Kraenzlin, Max Scheler's phenomenological systematics, Max Schelers phänomenologische Systematik, (1934), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 4, 1934-1935, p. 398-400. [in German]
Review of: Adolf Sternberger, The Understood Death. An investigation into Martin Heidegger's existential ontology, Der verstandene Tod. Eine Untersuchung zu Martin
Heideggers Existanzialontologie (1934), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 4, 1934-1935, p. 400-402. [in German]
Review of: Wilhelm Sesemann, The Logical Laws and Being, Die logischen Gesetze und das Sein (1932), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 4 1934-1935, p. 402-403. [in German]
Review of: Hugo Dingler, Philosophy of Logic and Arithmetic, Philosophie der Logik und Arithmetik, (1931), inRecherches philosophiques, Volume 4, 1934-1935, p. 430-434. [in German]
Review of: Marcel Granet, Chinese Thought, La Pensée chinoise (1934), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 4, 1934-1935, p. 446-448.
1935
Record of: Archives of the history of science and technology [Archiv of the history of science and technology], USSR academy of sciences. Works of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, 1st series, vol. V (1935) and vol. VI (1935), in Thales, t. X, 1935, p. 237-253.
Review by: Alfred Delp, Tragic Existence. On the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Tragische Existenz. Zur Philosophie Martin Heideggers, (1935), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 5, 1935-1936, p. 415-419.
Review by: Friedrich Weidauer, Objectivity, unconditional science and
scientific truth. Objektivität, voraussetzungslose Wissenschaft und wissenschaftiliche Wahrheit, (1935), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 5, 1935-1936, p. 419-420.
Review of: Fritz Kluge, Aloys Müller's philosophy of mathematics and natural science, Aloys Müller’s Philosophie der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaft, (1935), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 5, 1935-1936, p. 453.
Review of: Entai Tomomatsu, Buddhism (1935), in Philosophical Researches, Volume 5, 1935-1936, p. 488.
Translation from the German of: H. de Man, The Socialist Idea. Follow-up to the Work Plan, translated from German by H. Corbin and A. Kojevnikov, Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1935.
1937
Review of : J. Hessing, The Mind's Becoming Self-Conscious, Das Selbstbewusst Werden des Geistes, (1936), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 4, 1936-1937, p. 395-396.
Review of: Alois Fischer, The Existential Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Presentation and appreciation of their basic ideas, Die Existenzphilosophie Martin Heideggers. Darlegung und Würdigung ihrer Grundgedanken, (1935), in Recherches philosophiques, Volume 4, 1936-1937, p. 396-397.
1938
Review of: Dimitri Strémooukhoff, Vladimir Soloviev and his messianic work (1935), in Revue de philosophie, no 8.
1939
“Autonomy and dependence of self-awareness”, in Mesures, January 14, 1939.
[This is the annotated translation of section A of chapter IV of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, republished by R. Queneau "By way of introduction" in the Introduction to Reading Hegel, Lessons on the Phenomenology of the Spirit professed from 1933 to 1939 at the École des Hautes Etudes gathered and published by Raymond Queneau, Paris, Gallimard, 1947 (2nd enlarged edition. 1962).]
1946
“Christianity and Communism”, in Critique, no 3-4, August-September 1946, p. 308-312. [Review by: Gaston Fessard, France, Beware of Losing Your Freedom (1946).]
Hegel, Marx and Christianity, in Critique, no 3-4, August-September 1946, p. 339-366. [Review of: Henri Niel, On Mediation in the Philosophy of Hegel (1945).]
1947
Introduction to the reading of Hegel, lessons on the Phenomenology of the Spirit taught from 1933 to 1939 at the École des Hautes Etudes collected and published by Raymond Queneau, Paris, Gallimard 1947 (2nd enlarged edition, 1962).
1949
“Difficulties and hopes of the OEEC”, in France-Illustration, 206, 310, September 24, 1949. [The article is unsigned, but the original manuscript is in Kojève’s papers.]
1950
“The political action of philosophers”, in Critique, no 41, October 1950, p. 46-55; and No. 42, November 1950, p. 138-154.
[Reviewed by: Leo Strauss, On Tyranny (1948). A more developed version was published in the first French edition of Strauss's book (De la tyrannie, Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Les Essais" lxix, 1954, p. 387-397), under the title Tyranny and wisdom, and taken up in the English edition where the Kojève-Strauss correspondence was published: L. Strauss, On Tyranny, ed. by V. Gourevitch and M. S. Roth, New York, The Free Press, 1991 (French tr.: Paris, Gallimard, 1997).]
1952
“The novels of wisdom”, in Critique, no. 60, May 1952, p. 397-397. [Review of: Raymond Queneau, Pierrot mon ami (1942); Far from Rueil (1945); The Sunday of Life (1952).]
1955
“The concept and time”, in Deucalion, no 5, October 1955, p. 11-20.
1956
“The last new world”, in Critique, no 111-112, August-September 1956, p. 702-708. [Review of: Françoise Sagan, Hello Sadness (1954); A Certain Smile (1956).]
1964
“The Emperor Julian and his Art of Writing”, translated into English by J. H. Nichols, in Ancients and Moderns. Essays on the Tradition of Political Philosophy in Honor of Leo Strauss, edited. by J. Cropsey, New York, Basic Books, 1964, p. 65-113.
[The original French version, The Emperor Julien and his art of writing, was published under the same title by Fourbis (Paris, 1990).]
"The Christian origin of modern science", in Mixtures Alexandre Koyré, published on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, volume 3: The Adventure of the Spirit, Paris, Hermann, 1964, p. 295-306.
[Prepublication in the journal Sciences, no. 31, May-June 1964, p. 37-41.]
“Need for a systematic revision of the fundamental principles of current trade”, in Development and Civilizations, no 19, September 1964, p. 44
1966
“Why concrete”, in the 20th century, no 27, dec. 1966 (republished in 1974). [Abridged version of "The concrete paintings of Kandinsky" (July 23 to 25, 1936), published in its entirety in Wassily Kandinsky, Correspondences with Zervos and Kojève, Les Cahiers du musée national d'Art moderne (special edition/archives), Paris, Georges-Pompidou Center, 1992, p. 177-193 (with the translation of the Kojève-Kandinsky correspondence: p. 143-75). This essay, first published in the Revue de metaphysique et de morale, no 2, April-June 1985, was finally published as a book by La Lettre Volée (Brussels, 2001).]
1968
“Interview with Alexandre Kojève”, by Gilles Lapouge, in La Quinzaine littéraire, no 53, July 1-15, 1968, p. 18-20. [Republished in La Quinzaine littéraire, no. 500, January 1-15, 1988, p. 2-3.]
Essay on a reasoned history of pagan philosophy, volume 1, Paris, Gallimard, 1968
Posthumous works
Essay on a reasoned history of pagan philosophy, volume 2, Paris, Gallimard, 1972
Essay on a reasoned history of pagan philosophy, volume 3, Paris, Gallimard, 1973
Kant (1952), Paris, Gallimard, 1973.
Sketch of a phenomenology of law (1943), Paris, Gallimard, 1981.
The Idea of Determinism in Classical Physics and in Modern Physics (1932), Paris, Le Livre de poche, 1990.
The Concept, Time and Discourse (1952), Paris, Gallimard, 1990.
Atheism (1931), translated from Russian by N. Ivanoff, Paris, Gallimard, 1998.
The Notion of Authority (1942), edited by François Terré, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.
Posthumous writings
"Letters to Georges Bataille", in Textures, no. 6, 1970, p. 61-71.
"Preface to the work of Georges Bataille", in L'Arc, no 44, 1971.
“The specificity and autonomy of law”, in Commentaire, no 9, 1980, p. 122-130.
“Preface to the “Update of the Hegelian System of Knowledge””, in Commentaire, no 9, 1980, p. 131-135. [This is the "Preface" to the book A. Kojève, The Concept, Time and Discourse, ed. by B. Hesbois, Paris, Gallimard, 1990, p. 29-36.]
“Capitalism and Socialism. Marx is God, Ford is his prophet”, in Commentary, no. 9, 1980, p. 135-137. [This text is taken from a conference in German held in Düsseldorf on January 16, 1957 entitled “Kolonialismus in europäischer Sicht”. The full text of this lecture has been published in German in Schmittiana. Beiträge zu Leben und Werke Carl Schmitts, edited. by P. Tommissen, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1998, volume. 4, p. 126-40. A French version of this text was given by Kojève to some of his friends, and this complete version was only recently published in Commentaire, no 87, 1999, p. 557-565.]
“A letter from Kojève on Plato”, dans Quaderni di Storia, no 12, 1980, p. 223-224. [Letter of 9 January 1958 addressed to Livio Sichirollo, translated into French and commented by A. Francioni.]
“Two unpublished letters from Alexandre Kojève to Vassily Kandinsky”, in Kandinsky (exhibition catalogue) Paris, Center Georges-Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, 1984, p. 64-74. [These are two of the letters from the correspondence in Russian comprising 42 letters and postcards from Kandinsky and 8 from Kojève, correspondence which was then published in its entirety and in French in Wassily Kandinsky, Correspondences with Zervos and Kojève (Les Notebooks of the National Museum of Modern Art. Special Edition/Archives), Paris, 1992, p. 143-175.]
Review by: Gaston Fessard, Pax nostra. International Examination of Conscience (1936) and The Outstretched Hand? Is Catholic-Communist dialogue possible? (1937), in B. Hesbois, The Book and Death. Essay on Kojève, dissertation, Catholic University of Louvain, 1985, p. 152-60. [This version of the unpublished report comes from the Kojève collection. A slightly modified version was found in the archives of Fessard, and published in G. Marcel, G. Fessard, Correspondance (1934-1971), ed. by H. de Lubac, M. Rougier, M. Sales, introd. by X. Tilliette, Paris, Beauchesne, 1985, p. 510-516, then republished in G. Jarczyk, P.-J. Labarrière, De Kojève à Hegel. 150 years of Hegelian thought in France, Paris, Albin Michel, 1996, p. 131-36.]
Report by: Auguste Gregoire, Immanence and Transcendence. Questions of theodicy (1939), in B. Hesbois, The Book and Death. Essay on Kojève, dissertation, Catholic University of Louvain, 1985, p. 160-169.
“Three letters to Gaston Fessard”, in G. Fessard, G. Marcel, Correspondance (1934-1971), edition by H. de Lubac, M. Rougier, M. Sales, introd. by X. Tilliette, Paris, Beauchesne, 1985, p. 506-510.
"Correspondence between Alexandre Kojève and Tran-Duc-Thao", in Genèses, no 2, 1990, p. 131-137. [Later republished in G. Jarczyk-P.-J. Labarrière, From Kojève to Hegel. 150 years of Hegelian thought in France, Paris, Albin Michel, 1996, p. 64-68.]
“The Latin Empire. Outline of a doctrine of French politics” (August 27, 1945), The Rules of the Game, t. I, May 1990, No. 1, p. 89-123.
[Truncated version.]
"Unpublished note on Hegel and Heidegger", ed. by B. Hesbois, in Rue Descartes, no. 7, 1993, p. 29-46.
“Moscow: August 1957”, in Commentaire, no 62, 1993, p. 273-278.
[This text was written by Kojève on September 27, 1957, after a stay in Moscow in August of the same year. Kojève had some of his friends from the Ministry of Economy and Finance read it, including Bernard Clappier and Olivier Wormser, who at that time was French Ambassador to Moscow.]
“The Kojève-Schmitt correspondence”, in Schmittiana. Contributions to the life and works of Carl Schmitt, ed. par P. Tommissen, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1998, vol. VI, p. 100-124.
I. Fetscher, "World spirit between Tübingen and Paris. The Hegel correspondence with Alexandre Kojève", in memory of Wolfgang Harich, edited by S. Dornuf and R. Pitsch, volume 2, Munich, 2000, p. 214-230.
[This text contains correspondence between A. Kojève and I. Fetscher.]
"The personality of Kandinsky", in A. Kojève, Kandinsky, edited by M. Filoni, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2005.
[This is the unpublished text "The personality of Kandinsky", written by Kojève on July 21, 1946.]
Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty, Alexandre Kojève, introduction by Boris Groys, David Zwirner Books, 2022
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