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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822943409
• ISBN13: 9780822943402
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"