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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Dialectical Genealogy of Self, Society, and Culture in and after Hegel
John O’Neill
Part I. Lordship and Bondage
1. Lordship and Bondage
G.W.F. Hegel
2. Critique of Hegel
Karl Marx
Part II. Desire and Recognition
3. Desire and Work in the Master and Slave
Alexandre Kojeve
4. Self-Consciousness and Life: The Independence of Self-Consciousness
Jean Hyppolite
5. The Existence of Others
Jean-Paul Sarte
Part III. Alienation and Recognition
6. Hegel’s Economics During the Jena Period
Georg Lukacs
7. Labor and Interaction: Remarks on Hegel’s Jena Philosophy of Mind
Jurgen Habermas
8. Hegel’s Dialectic of Self-Consciousness
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Part IV. Dialectics of Desire and Recognition
9. Of Human Bondage: Labor and Freedom in the Phenomenology
Howard Adelman
10. Labor, Alienation, and Social Classes in Hegel’s Realphilosophie
Shlomo Avineri
11. Master and Slave: The Bonds of Love
Jessica Benjamin
12. Hegel and Lacan: The Dialectic of Desire
Edward S. Casey and J. Melvin Woody
13. The Concept of Recognition in Hegel’s Jena Manuscripts
Henry S. Harris
14. Notes on Hegel’s ‘Lordship and Bondage’
George Armstrong Kelly
15. The Struggle for Recognition: Hegel’s Dispute with Hobbes in the Jena Writings
Ludwig Siep
16. Self-Sufficient Man: Dominion and Bondage
Judith N. Shklar
17. The Metaphor in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind
Henry Sussman
Index
About the author
John O’Neill is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of a number of books, including
For Marx Against Althusser and
The Poverty of Postmodernism.
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
40,395 Ebooks in this category
