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Jay Bernstein’s article in the Cambridge Companion to Adorno argues that master and slave are transcendental and empirical consciousnesses, which means that here Hegel is basically talking about Kant. And the rest if his work on the Phenomenology shows convincingly that this take on it helps to make sense of everything else going on in the text.
So I would ask you, if Hegel means primarily class struggle, how does that affect our reading of the rest of the book? Eg i can see how we might then go into the rest of the self-consciousness chapter; along the lines of Kojève who says that unhappy consciousness, skepticism, etc are slaves’ ideologies/false consciousnesses, but then why would Hegel go from there to Reason? In Bernstein’s view, we can makes sense of this: through and through the Phenomenology is about the struggle between judging consciousness (Creon, the transcendental self, Metaphysics, the master) and acting consciousness (Antigone, the empirical self, idealism, and the slave).
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