The Thinking of the Master: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) - Softcover

Burger, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810118998 ISBN 13: 9780810118997

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Burger is the author of Theory of the Avant-Garde

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810118998
• ISBN 13: 9780810118997
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144