The Thinking of the Master: Bataille Between Hegel and Surrealism

by Peter Bürger

Book Overview

Mastery of many sorts emerges in new configurations in Peter B?rger's The Thinking of the Master as an idea developed by Hegel in the master/slave dialectic in his Phenomenology of Spirit as a quality embodied in the work of certain twentieth-century ma?tre-penseurs, or "master thinkers"; and, not least, in the expertise of B?rger himself as he negotiates and clarified a critical intersection of contemporary French and German...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810118998
• ISBN13: 9780810118997
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.1"