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 thought. The author of the classic Theory of the Avant-Garde, B?rger here considers what several seminal thinkers--among them Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida--owe to Hegel's dialectic and measures their accomplishments against the avant-garde project. Succinct, witty, and instructive, each of his essays stands alone as a valuable exposition of a significant strain of postmodern thought.

• 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"