PROPERTY AND PROGENY - EDUCATION, COMMAND AND PATRIARCHY IN HEGEL THOUGHT

This article examines some gender issues found in the central relation ships of Hegel's family. The practices of the family amount to a partr iarchy which belies Hegel's larger claims of emancipation through memb ership in the larger social totality. In effect, Hegel produces his ow n variation of the ''noble lie,'' which denies practices of domination necessary for the production of free, masculine social relations. The particular relationships examined in this piece are the marriage unio n, family property and education.