Lordship and Bondage

Alexander Kojeve's famous "Introductory Lectures to the Reading of Hegel", (in which the Lordship and Bondage passages are treated thoroughly) while historically important in its own right, and perhaps intellectually stimulating and insightful, is a highly partisan (Marxist) reading of Hegel. When it comes to Hegel secondary literature, I try to avoid anything before 1960, and anything which fails to give due weight to the epistemological work Hegel meant for those passages to do. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good work on those passages before 1960s, and I think it worthwhile to attempt to understand the Lordship and Bondage passages from anthropological, or even feminist perspectives. Just if the goal is to understand Hegel qua Hegel, it's better to be on your guard.