master–slave dialectic

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The master–slave dialectic is a key Hegelian philosophical concept describing how self-consciousness, power, and freedom develop through a struggle for recognition between a dominant "master" and a subordinate "slave."


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hegelian concept
concept in German idealism
dialectic
philosophical concept
author G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
centralTheme domination and subordination
fear of death
freedom through struggle
labor and work
mutual dependence
recognition
describes dependence and independence of self-consciousness
development of self-consciousness
freedom
power relations
relation between master and slave
struggle for recognition
developsConcept lordship and bondage
recognitive relations
self-consciousness
hasInterpretationBy Alexandre Kojève
Frantz Fanon
Jean Hyppolite
Judith Butler
Ludwig Siep NERFINISHED
Simone de Beauvoir
hasPart figure of the master
figure of the slave
influenced Alexandre Kojève
Frantz Fanon
Jean-Paul Sartre
Karl Marx
Simone de Beauvoir
critical theory
existentialism
feminist theory
postcolonial theory
psychoanalytic theory
language German
locatedInWorkSection Self-Consciousness
originalTitle Herrschaft und Knechtschaft
partOf phenomenology of spirit
surface form: Phenomenology of Spirit
relatedTo German idealism
Hegelian dialectics
surface form: Hegelian phenomenology

dialectic of dependence
historicity of self-consciousness
lordship and bondage section
social ontology of recognition
struggle for recognition
timePeriod early 19th century

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phenomenology of spirit notableConcept master–slave dialectic
subject surface form: Phenomenology of Spirit