Hegelian bondsman achieves selfhood through service and work on things

Evidence

This moment of pure being-for-self is also explicit for the bondsman, for in the lord it exists for him as his object. Furthermore, his consciousness is not this dissolution of everything stable merely in principle; in his service he actually brings this about. Through his service he rids himself of his attachment to natural existence in every single detail and gets rid of it by working on it. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 630

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Lays out the master-bondsman dialectic that Anidjar will repurpose for the theological-political question of subjection.