Bataille, thus, can only utilize the empty form of the Aufhebung, in an analogical fashion, in order to designate, as was never done before, the If the entire history of meaning is reassembled and represented, at a point of the canvas, by the figure of the slave, if Hegel's discourse, Logic, and the Book of which Kojeve speaks are the slave('s) language, that is, I the worker('s) language, then they can be read from left to right or from right to left, as a reactionary movement or as a revolutionary movement, or both at once.