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The dialectic of lordship and bondage, more commonly known as the \u201cMaster/Slave dialectic,\u201d is a moment in a much longer and exceedingly difficult-to-read (much less understand!) text by G.W.F. Hegel entitled The Phenomenology of Spirit. It\u2019s probably a passage that is referenced in a wide number of fields\u2013 psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literary analysis, any number of \u201carea studies,\u201d and even economics-- though very few of the scholars who reference it have slogged all the way through Hegel\u2019s Phenomenology. Nevertheless, like Plato\u2019s Allegory of the Cave from the Republic and Nietzsche\u2019s story about the lambs and the birds of prey from Genealogy of Morals, both of which we\u2019ve discussed before on this podcast, Hegel\u2019s dialectic of Lordship and Bondage manages to capture, in a concise and powerful way, something both intuitively true and yet, at the same time, utterly mystifying.\xa0

This week we ask the question, why has this passage become the hit single off of the dense concept album that is the Phenomenology.

Full episode notes available at this link:
https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-105-the-master-slave-dialectic

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