Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic & After
New School for Social Research: Philosophy
CRN: 14676
Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to critically interrogate the idea that Hegel’s account of the dialectic of Master and Slave in his Phenomenology of Spirit was adopted by later thinkers in order to interrogate the basic structures and mechanisms of chattel slavery, racial domination, colonial domination, class domination, gender difference and domination, and, finally, the Ecofeminist contention that it represents the overall structure of the capitalist domination of the environment today – in the Anthropocene. One way of unifying this claim would be to say that racism, the domination of labor by capital, colonialism, and patriarchy in the modern world are all a part of the aftermath of slavery, its continuance by other means. Among the texts we will read are: Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death; Karl Marx, The 1844 Manuscripts; Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth; and his Black Skin, White Masks; Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, Stefania Barca, Forces of Reproduction.
College: New School for Social Research (GF)
Department: Philosophy (PHI)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Seminar (R)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 18
Add/Drop Deadline: February 4, 2024 (Sunday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 16, 2024 (Tuesday)
Seats Available: Yes
Status: Closed*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 7:00am EDT 4/27/2024