[Marxism] Thomas Frank on the latest Obama flap

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shane Mage 

Hegel's discussion in the "Phaenomenologie des Geistes" (the  
reflection in philosophy of the Great French Revolution) is a riff on  
Diderot's (Sophokles and Diderot are virtually the only authors cited  
by name in that enormous book) wonderful novel "Jacques le Fataliste  
et son MaÃtre."  It has nothing of empirical sociology about it, but  
is basically a meditation on the relationship between the mind (the  
"master") and the body (the "slave"). To treat it as sociology is to  
miss Hegel's profound materialist insight.  Of course, all the  
implicitly revolutionary sociological implications you want are  
obvious in Diderot.

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CB; Thanks , Shane. That's interesting, although if the mind is the master , it 
sounds like an idealist insight. Your comment fit with Phenomenology of the 
Mind being a psychology treatise.

Subject:object::master:slave

Mind:body::master:slave

(: means "is to"; :: means "as")



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