Work, recognition and subjectivization: some remarks about the modernity of Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel

From the analytical point of view of Hegel\u27s philosophical anthropology, in Kojève\u27s interpretation, work is an existential structure through which the dual process of subjectification and socialization unfolds. For Hegel, however, this process is not taken for granted: its possibility is understood in terms of the culmination of man\u27s conquest of humanity, taking as a point of departure the relation of mastery to servitude and the undertaking to transform this relation precisely from within the perspective of servitude. The goal of this article is to reconstruct the conceptual framework of this philosophical moment, to our mind an indispensible precondition for the apperception of our modern societies\u27 functioning at the most fundamental level, to the extent that they consider themselves to be ‘work based societies