This seminar is scheduled to take place on Saturday, January 18. It will be focused primarily on the Self-Consciousness section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, particularly but not exclusively on the Master-Slave dialectic, and on selected interpretations of that section of the work and its key ideas.

In our discussion and Q & A, it is likely that we may stray into other related topics connected to Hegel's thought, but we will try to keep the discussion focused primarily on the main topics for the seminar.

Here is the schedule for the seminar (all times are Central Standard Time)

9:00 AM CST - Part 1: Self-Consciousness and the Master-Slave Dialectic

We will be discussing the following topics:

• Self-Consciousness And Other (Self Consciousness)
• Desire As Central To Life and Self-Consciousness
• The Meaning and Value of Recognition
• The Struggle To The (Non-)Death
• Putting The Slave To Work
• Transformation Of World, Objects, and Self
• Death As Ultimate Master

11:00 AM CST - Part 2: Selected Interpretations and Incorporations of the Master-Slave Dialectic

• Does it really make sense to look to Karl Marx? Martin Buber? Martin Heidegger
• Commentators important in the French scene: Alexandre Kojève and Jean Hyppolite
• Selected French interpretations/integrations: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, Frantz Fanon

1:00 PM CST - Part 3: Going Beyond the Master-Slave Dialectic In The Phenomenology

• The Rest of the Self-Consciousness section: Stoicism And Skepticism, The Unhappy Consciousness
• More developed forms of Recognition in The Phenomenology

Students enrolled in the seminar are free to attend and participate in as many or as few sessions as they would like to while it is running