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I did not choose this topic and title without deep regret. It is, in one respect, my initiation to philosophy, my education as a philosopher that I am renouncing. I have the impression that I am perpetrating a sort of philosophical parricide. When I was a young man, French philosophers were re-discovering Hegel with the help of Alexandre Koyré and Kojève’s seminar, which I attended, and with the stimulus of the exciting publication and translation into French of the papers of the young Marx.
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Polin, R. (1978). Farewell to the Philosophy of History. In: Yovel, Y. (eds) Philosophy of History and Action. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9365-5_16
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