Perhaps this work's most important point is the author's attempt to typify certain features of the struggle for recognition, or Anerkennung.  
This work describes the relationship between the self and otherness as the fundamental characteristic of human awareness and activity.    The most prominent chapter is "The Truth of Self-Certainty," which describes the "master/slave" struggle as a paradigm of all forms of social conflict.  Perhaps this work's most important point is the author's attempt to typify certain features of the struggle for recognition, or Anerkennung.  Originally intended to be the first part of its author's Wissenschaft, or comprehensive system, FTP, identify this seminal 1807 work in philosophy by G. W. F. Hegel.
This work describes the relationship between the self and otherness as the fundamental characteristic of human awareness and activity.    
The Phenomenology of Spirit or Die Ph?omenologie des Geistes