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Most Anglo-american Readers Know Bataille As A Novelist. The Accursed Share Provides An Excellent Introduction To Bataille The Philosopher. Here He Uses His Unique Economic Theory As The Basis For An Incisive Inquiry Into The Very Nature Of Civilization. Unlike Conventional Economic Models Based On Notions Of Scarcity, Bataille's Theory Develops The Concept Of Excess: A Civilization, He Argues, Reveals Its Order Most Clearly In The Treatment Of Its Surplus Energy. The Result Is A Brilliant Blend Of Ethics, Aesthetics, And Cultural Anthropology That Challenges Both Mainstream Economics And Ethnology. The Three Volumes Of The Accursed Share Address What Georges Bataille Sees As The Paradox Of Utility: Namely, If Being Useful Means Serving A Further End, Then The Ultimate End Of Utility Can Only Be Uselessness. The First Volume, The Only One Published Before Bataille's Death, Treated This Paradox In Economic Terms, Showing That It Is Not Necessity But Its Contrary, Luxury, That Presents Living Matter And Mankind With Their Fundamental Problems. In The Second And Third Volumes, The History Of Eroticism And Sovereignty, Bataille Explores The Same Paradox Of Utility From An Anthropologic

Who reads The Accursed Share : an Essay on General Economy?

Author

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.

Publisher

Zone Books, 1988-

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780942299205

Category

reference

Subjects

Economics, History, Sociology

Rating

4.13 / 5 (229 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14