Servility is therefore only the desire for meaning: a proposition with which the history of philosophy is confused; a proposition that determines work as the meaning of meaning, and techne as the unfolding of truth; a proposition powerfully reassembled in the Hegelian moment, and a proposition that Batailie, in the wake of Nietzsche, wanted to bring to the point of enunciation, and whose denunciation he wished to wrest from the non basis of an inconceivable nonsense, finally placing it within major play.