Offering a new translation of the famous chapter 4
("Self-Consciousness") of Phenomenology of Spirit, this book
reflects the far-reaching insights of contemporary Hegelian
scholarship. Included is extensive commentary as well as a review
of its reception by such important twentieth-century thinkers as
Kojeve, Heidegger, Sartre, Gadamer, Bataille, Deleuze, Lacan, and
Habermas.
Interest in Hegel has historically centered around the
Phenomenology of Spirit. In particular chapter 4, including Hegel's
celebrated "master-slave dialectic, " has influenced philosophers,
political theorists, social psychologists, cultural
anthropologists, and literary theorists alike. Hegel began this
chapter with an influential discussion of the nature of human
"desire, " and then described a hypothetical encounter between two
pre-social human beings who engage in a life-and-death struggle for
recognition. Out of this struggle that gave rise to self-identity,
emerged such forms of consciousness as master and slave, stoicism
skepticism, and what Hegel referred to as "the unhappy
consciousness, " which he took to be paradigmatic of early,
Christianity. These forms of consciousness, in turn, are
transcended by other, more comprehensive, forms of consciousness
that ultimately come to reflect the highest elaborations of
societal life. The impetus for these dynamic changes comes from the
dialectical contradictions that inhere within our most basic
conceptions of personhood.
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