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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
[1964]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:snwycwsll5yl4uolk67be3bg/bafkreiggmrdodhqdr3scvdxyjo66qvthqbyhbntaj4kwpv2tlut5h7znbu)
![The passage describes, in narrative form, the development of self-consciousness as such in an encounter between what are thereby (i.e., emerging only from this encounter) two distinct, self-conscious beings. The essence of the dialectic is the movement or motion of recognizing, in which the two self-consciousnesses are constituted in each being recognized as self-conscious by the other. This movement, inexorably taken to its extreme, takes the form of a "struggle to the death" in which one masters [beherrscht] the other, only to find that such lordship makes the very recognition he had sought impossible, since the bondsman, in this state, is not free to offer it.
This passage has been influential in a variety of disciplines. In particular, Alexandre Kojève's anthropological interpretation of what he renders the master–slave dialectic (French: Dialectique du maître et de l'esclave) has inspired 20th-century work on topics Hegel never pursued such as feminism and critical race studies.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:snwycwsll5yl4uolk67be3bg/bafkreiealdnijltmbg46cfmmhd57wfc7x3d4cgx3by5ywaebfqbxh6twnu)
![Pro-democracy circles everywhere felt relief around the turn of the year 1932–33. “The massive National Socialist attack on the democratic state has been repelled,” announced editor in chief Rudolf Kircher in the New Year’s edition of the Frankfurter Zeitung. “Today we can be certain: The cart is not stuck in the mud forever.” [citation 53] The other major liberal newspapers struck a similar note. A year-in-review article in the Vossische Zeitung, entitled “Year of Decision,” proclaimed that the Weimar Republic had been saved: “Not because it was defended, but because the attackers finished each other off. It was a journey through the Devil’s Gorge that one cannot look back on without shuddering.” This raised the question for editorial writer Julius Elbau: “Will Hitler, who in the frenzy of victory wanted to be Caesar and Messiah rolled into one, be sobered by the failure and find a path to responsible cooperation after all?” [citation 54]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:snwycwsll5yl4uolk67be3bg/bafkreica4f7uc5m6aeqtghphcrbqbeahladlcqhvslferobg2rgbufbvcu)
![todays’ intellectual universe. But when it comes to questions of what is fascism, liberalism, or Marxism, not only is there no consensus within conventional wisdom or in the ideologues’ own understanding, but it is also plainly true that there are many fundamentally distorted self-understandings. For example, contemporary Japanese fascists are constantly explaining that their own thought is in fact antifascist, and liberals understand liberalism [jiyūshugi] as nothing more than the pursuit of freedom [jiyū]—which in fact results in liberalism opposing liberalism. And self-proclaimed “Marxists” believe they can be moderately Marxist by attacking Marxism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:snwycwsll5yl4uolk67be3bg/bafkreiaqastadctscewcdlyvrkydcp5rqzg2lxs6jiqepaqsvjomefigcy)
![powerful thought, or “musing” [Grübelei], is itself not a sufficient reason. Our present world is one in which all forms of fascist ideology strut about in broad daylight; a world where radio, newspapers, journals, and the like daily, endlessly, and so zealously embody nonsense and fraud that it surely scandalizes the ears of any philosopher who hears it. So, if anyone still believes that philosophers boldly promote “truth” here is evidence that such is simply not the case. Either consciously or unconsciously they all support fascist ideology, or at least that is their net effect. Such is clear once one sees that these philosophers view the antithesis of fascism—materialism—as the enemy. In short, these philosophers are bourgeois ideologues. I think that bourgeois philosophy is the essence of this bourgeois ideology, and today in Japan, the representative of bourgeois philosophy is clearly none other than Nishida philosophy. This is the main reason we must problematize Nishida philosophy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:snwycwsll5yl4uolk67be3bg/bafkreians5x2g4nnn6o7onofi77qpvjwucyiiphlph7wieyhainzstdliy)
