"Efendi ile Köle İlişkisi" ya da bir yazınsal malzemenin felsefi bir kurama dönüşümü

Abstract

The master/slave dialectic portrayed in literature in Denis Diderot’s novel “Jack the Fatalist” has been a source of inspiration for philosophical theories. Hegel has theorized about this “literary corpus” in “Phenomenology of Spirit” and later he has dealt with the Master/Slave dialectic in the “Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences”. Hegel in his above stated works has pointed out that it is not the master but the slave who can attain freedom ‘working’ for the master and for himself. Marx referring to the same subject in “The German Ideology” and “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844” theoretically deals with a contrast between the alienated nature of labor under capitalism and a communist society in which human beings freely developed their nature in cooperative production, thus transforming this into a factor effecting the flow of world history. Diderot in adapting Hegel’s and Marx’s efforts to epic theatre and developing the estrangement effect also know as the alienation effect has contemporized the impossibility of authentic human relationships across the divide of social class in his play entitled “Mr Puntila and his Man Matti”.