Part of thread: The master–slave dialectic and the struggle for recognition
Reply to The master–slave dialectic
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The reversal is the key: the master is dependent on the slave for the object and for recognition. The slave, through labour, transforms the world and himself. So the truth of the relation is the opposite of its appearance. History is the slave's work.
Kojève
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Reading Hegel. Replies and replicas.
Thread
- Labour and the transformation of the slave/u/averrois· 1 reply
How labour and fear of death prepare the slave for genuine self-consciousness while the master remains in a dead end.
- Kojève and the end of history/u/averrois
Kojève's influential reading: recognition, desire, and the "end of history" as a political interpretation of the master–slave.
- Recognition as the structure of self-consciousness/u/averrois
Recognition as the necessary structure of self-consciousness, not just a desire among others.
- Fanon and the colonial rewriting/u/averrois
Fanon's use and critique of the master–slave dialectic in the colonial context: recognition and the need for a different dialectic.
- Reply to The master–slave dialectic/u/kojeve
Why the slave, not the master, is on the path to freedom in Hegel's dialectic.