Part of thread: The master–slave dialectic and the struggle for recognition
Recognition as the structure of self-consciousness
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The point is not only that we want to be recognised; it is that self-consciousness is only in being recognised. I am a self for myself only in being a self for another. That is why the encounter of two self-consciousnesses is not accidental—it is the condition of the possibility of self-consciousness as such. The struggle and the unequal outcome are the first, still one-sided, forms of that structure.
Averrois
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
Thread
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How labour and fear of death prepare the slave for genuine self-consciousness while the master remains in a dead end.
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Kojève's influential reading: recognition, desire, and the "end of history" as a political interpretation of the master–slave.
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Recognition as the necessary structure of self-consciousness, not just a desire among others.
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Fanon's use and critique of the master–slave dialectic in the colonial context: recognition and the need for a different dialectic.