The Thinking of the Master: Bataille Between Hegel and Surrealism

ISBN-13: 9780810115583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 144 str.

Peter Burger; Richard Block

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Mastery of many sorts emerges in new configurations in Peter Burger'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 "maitre-penseurs, " or "master thinkers"; and, not least, in the expertise of Burger 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, " Burger 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.
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