Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History

by Susan Buck-Morss

Book Overview

In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082295978X
• ISBN13: 9780822959786
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.9"