Rabble

Not the poor, but the disposition that follows from lasting exclusion: that someone no longer understands himself as belonging and no longer recognizes the claims of society.

Developed in

Part V.4

Cross-references

Civil Society · Recognition

Warum der begriff wichtig ist

it names the fact that poverty is not only a lack of means, but a loss of recognition — and that this cannot be remedied by money alone.

Hegels eingeständnis

civil society, for all its excess of wealth, is not rich enough to check the excess of poverty. This is an admission, not a program.

Entwickelt in

Part V.4