In this article, the master-servant figure in the Phenomenology of Spirit is analyzed against the background of Hegel’s ontology of life as an embodied process. It is therefore argued that the theme of this figure is the question of domination in general, understood as a social relationship of subjection that can take on different historical configurations. Domination is understood as a relationship of disparity of status between dominant and dominated subjects. Therefore, domination would have an intersubjective aspect, as constituted by asymmetric relations of recognition, and a material one, as this disparity in recognitive status enacts the extraction of physical and symbolic resources from subordinated subjects.

Life and the two-fold structure of domination: subjugation and recognition in Hegel’s master-servant dialectics / Testa, Italo. - In: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY REVIEW. - ISSN 1749-6977. - 31:3(2021), pp. 427-444. [10.1080/17496977.2021.1955647]

Life and the two-fold structure of domination: subjugation and recognition in Hegel’s master-servant dialectics

Italo Testa
2021-01-01

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In this article, the master-servant figure in the Phenomenology of Spirit is analyzed against the background of Hegel’s ontology of life as an embodied process. It is therefore argued that the theme of this figure is the question of domination in general, understood as a social relationship of subjection that can take on different historical configurations. Domination is understood as a relationship of disparity of status between dominant and dominated subjects. Therefore, domination would have an intersubjective aspect, as constituted by asymmetric relations of recognition, and a material one, as this disparity in recognitive status enacts the extraction of physical and symbolic resources from subordinated subjects.
2021
Life and the two-fold structure of domination: subjugation and recognition in Hegel’s master-servant dialectics / Testa, Italo. - In: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY REVIEW. - ISSN 1749-6977. - 31:3(2021), pp. 427-444. [10.1080/17496977.2021.1955647]
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