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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Double Consciousness

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:28 am

A check of the New York Times 's version of the 
philosophers' stone yields

"And as Du Bois, a student of Hegel’s, reminds us,
the one who is in the dominated position is aware
of the perspective of the master: She is conscious
of herself as being seen by the other. It is this
double-consciousness that we must learn to understand."

— Seyla Benhabib, quoted by the Times
     on Oct. 29, 2015, 3:30 AM ET

A check of Benhabib's words yields

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness,
this sense of always looking at one's self through
the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape
of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."

W. E. B. Du Bois

That, for example, looks on Harvard in amused contempt and pity

See Con Vocation.

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