Workshop

Neither Master Nor Slave

Contemporary Approaches to Hegel's Master-Servant-Dialectic

December 15, 2024, 10-18h Helle Panke

Kopenhagener Str. 9, 10437 Berlin

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In various political and historical contexts, Hegel’s famous master-servant dialectic was used as a philosophical foundation to understand processes of liberation. Various aspects of Hegel’s dialectic were highlighted in order to relate them to our own experience of liberation or the failure of liberation. The result is a corpus of interpretations – such as those of Marx, Adorno and Horkheimer, Kojeve, Fanon and Beauvoir – which are still relevant today. The underlying thesis of this workshop is that this development is not complete. Hegel’s master-servant dialectic can still be of use today as a productive point of reference for thinking about liberation. Contemporary interpretations and creative adaptations will be presented at this workshop which relate Hegel’s classic text to contemporary reality.