Glenn Magee (& Alexandre Kojève) on Begierde

By introducing “Self-Consciousness,” Hegel introduced the term Desire (Begierde) to describe the primal urge for the cancellation of otherness and the individuation-absolutization of subject.*

Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001), p. 141-2

* Kojève asks, what is Desire but the will to “transform the contemplated thing by an action, to overcome it in its being that is unrelated to mine and independent of me, to negate it in its independence, and to assimilate it to myself, to make it mine, to absorb it in and by my I?” (Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, 37-38).

Радикальныя феминистки, однако!