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dc.contributor.authorBenson, Michael Thomas.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-21T13:54:31Z
dc.date.available2009-05-21T13:54:31Z
dc.date.issued2005-05-21T13:54:31Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/1365
dc.description.abstractThis thesis poses two fundamental issues regarding Hegel's philosophy of intersubjectivity. Firstly, it examines Kojeve's problematic interpretation of Hegelian intersubjectivity as being solely rooted in the dialectic of lordship and bondage. It is my contention that Kojeve conflates the concepts of recognition {Anerkennung) with that of desire (Begierde), thereby reducing Hegel's philosophy of intersubjectivity to a violent reduction of the other to the same. This is so despite the plenary of examples Hegel uses to define intersubjectivity as the mutual (reciprocal) recognition between the self and the other. Secondly, it examines Hegel's use of Sophocles' Antigone to demonstrate the notion of the individual par excellence. I contend that Hegel's use of Antigone opens a new methodological framework through which to view his philosophy of intersubjectivity. It is Antigone that demonstrates the upheaval of an economy of exchange between the self and the other, whereby the alterity of the other transcends the self Ultimately, Hegel's philosophy of intersubjectivity must be reexamined, not only to dismiss Kojeve's problematic interpretation, but also to pose the possibility that Hegel's philosophy of intersubjectivity can viably account for a philosophy of the other that has a voice in contemporary philosophical debate.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectHegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831en_US
dc.subjectIntersubjectivity.en_US
dc.titleDesire and the paths of recognation [sic] in Hegel's intersubjectivityen_US
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dc.degree.nameM.A. Philsophyen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Humanititiesen_US
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