
Hegel and Race
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The Master's Slave Dialectic in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Todd: I'm going to adopt the position of the skeptic. And this is going to be informed a little bit from a recent article that we'll talk about later in the podcast. Todd, tell us about Hegel and Haiti. What's it like? So this is the thesis of Susan Buck Morse that actually the master-saved dialectic in the phenomenology of spirit was written in direct response to the struggles of the slaves in Haiti. They're there taking up the flag of the universal emancipation discovered in the French Revolution. That's her starting point. She uncovers through her own research. This fact that Hegel had the journals that he subscribed to were covering this event closely,.
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