Introduction to the Reading of Hegel meets Alexandre Kojève lessons taught on the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) during the years 1933-1939 at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. These lessons provide a full commentary, and sometimes very thorough, major phenomenological, ontological and historical notions of that work of Hegel. The core of these mainly revolves around the struggle for recognition, the establishment of a free and autonomous citizenship, "antropoteísmo" and the thesis of the end of philosophy and history. The reader will recognize immediately, therefore, the great influence of the works of Marx in this interpretation of the "science of conscious experience."

Besides its strictly conceptual relevance, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel has a wide cultural interest. For multiple attendees to these courses later became illustrious representatives of philosophy and postwar French literature (Bataille, Queneau, Hyppolite, Aron, Merleau-Ponty, Caillois or Lacan, among others).

The author added as appendix two conferences that address the notion of dialectic and the idea of ​​death in Hegel. Right there shines very clearly the presence of Heidegger's Being and Time (Trotta, 32012), which is the other major influence of this book Kojève. This edition, first presented in Spanish text in its entirety, is preceded by a foreword by Manuel Jiménez Redondo, who reviews the most controversial and critical of this Introduction to the Reading of Hegel thesis.