Hegel’s master-slave struggle frames identity and otherness as dialectical opposites that transform over time.

Evidence

With Hegel, identity and difference refers to the antinomy of being and nothingness, which in turn refers to spirit and matter unfolding in history. What Hegel calls the life and death struggle with the other, for instance between master and slave, is a relationship that changes dialectically over time. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 202

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how Hegel’s dialectic reframes self/other as a dynamic historical relationship rather than a fixed binary.
• XREF: connects to: Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic is a literary motif, not a description of actual slavery — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 270; Both slave and master embody Reason and Unreason together. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 535; Hegelian synthesis uniquely requires mutual recognition of opposites, unlike Aristotle and Kant — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1192