SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Frantz Fanon, Double Consciousness, Dawning Information Industry
21 Jan 2016
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End point= recognition of each others subjectivity one becomes more fully aware of oneself by seeing oneself through the eyes of another (looking glass self) Aware of oneself as object but also subject. Hegel - the struggle for recognition in self-consciousness. 1:the moment when the self and the other" come together, which makes self- Two opposing moments/movements" in the dialectic self-consciousness consciousness possible. 2: the moment of difference arising when one is conscious of the otherness of other selves vis- -vis oneself, and vice versa. Otherness" and ideal/pure self-consciousness are mutually opposed (dialectical) moments in a life and death struggle for recognition. Master and slave dialectic (lordship and bondsman) Realization of self as a subject, distinct/separate from the oneself as. This tension between selves and others, between mutual identification and estrangement/alienation, plays out in the fields of social relations. Dubois/ fanon and race, marx and class, simone debeauvoir and gender.
