Hegel's Dialectic of Desire and Recognition: Texts and Commentary (Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)

texts and commentary on the "Lordship and Bondage" chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit This book presents three generations of German, French, and Anglo-American thinking on the Hegelian narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation in life, labor, and language—a narrative that has been subject to extensive commentary in philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and feminist thought. The texts focus on a central topos in Western thought, the story of self-consciousness awakened in nature and in history. John O'Neill argues that current postmodern rejections of the Hegelian-Marxist narrative demand an understanding of the texts included here. Without Hegel and Marx in our toolbox, he argues, we will flounder in a world marked by the split between postmodern indifference and premodern passion.The book makes a strong selection from the history of Hegelian-Marxist debate, hermeneutical and critical theory, and Freudian/Lacanian and feminist commentary on the dialectic of desire and recognition, on the levels of social psychology and political economy. Included are articles by Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, Jean Hyppolite, Jean-Paul Sarte, Georg Lukács, Jürgen Habermas, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Howard Adelman, Shlomo Avineri, Jessica Benjamin, Edward S. Casey and J. Melvin Woody, Henry S. Harris, George Armstrong Kelly, Ludwig Siep, Judith N. Shklar, and Henry Sussman. The texts and commentaries show how the Hegelian-Maxist narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation is a contested story, one in which class, race, and gender issues are drawn into a historical romance that is being rewritten in contemporary cultural politics. s/t: Texts & Commentary Introduction: a dialectical genealogy of self, society, and culture in and after Hegel / John O'Neill -- Part 1: Lordship and bondage -- Lordship and bondage / G. W. F. Hegel -- Critique of Hegel / Karl Marx -- Part 2: Desire and recognition -- Desire and recognition -- Desire and work in the master and slave / Alexandre Kojve -- Self-consciousness and life: the independence of self-consciousness / Jean Hyppolite -- The existence of others / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Part 3: Alienation and recognition -- Hegel's economics during the Jena period / Georg Lukcs -- Labor and interaction: remarks on Hegel's Jena philosophy of mind / Jrgen Habermas -- Hegel's dialectic of self-consciousness / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Part 4: Dialectics of desire and recognition -- Of human bondage: labor and freedom in the Phenomenology / Howard Adelman -- Labor, alienation, and social classes in Hegel's Realphilosophie / Shlomo Avineri -- Master and slave: the bonds of love / Jessica Benjamin -- Hegel and Lacan: the dialectic of desire / Edward S. Casey and J. Melvin Woody -- The concept of recognition in Hegel's Jena manuscripts / Henry S. Harris -- Notes on Hegel's "Lordship and bondage" / George Armstrong Kelly -- The struggle for recognition: Hegel's dispute with Hobbes in the Jena writings / Ludwig Siep -- Self-sufficient man: dominion and bondage / Judith N. Shklar -- The metaphor in Hegel's Phenomenology of mind / Henry Sussman.