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- catalog abstract "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 anthropological and an ethical perspective, respectively. "The History of Eroticism" analyzes the fears and fascination, the prohibitions and transgressions attached to the realm of eroticism as so many expressions of the "uselessness" of erotic life. In the third volume, Bataille raises the ethical problems of sovereignty, of "the independence of man relative to useful ends."".
- catalog alternative "Essay on general economy".
- catalog alternative "Part maudite. English".
- catalog contributor b1932934.
- catalog contributor b1932935.
- catalog contributor b1932936.
- catalog contributor b1932937.
- catalog contributor b1932938.
- catalog created "1988-1991.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "1988-1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1988-1991.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "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 anthropological and an ethical perspective, respectively. "The History of Eroticism" analyzes the fears and fascination, the prohibitions and transgressions attached to the realm of eroticism as so many expressions of the "uselessness" of erotic life. In the third volume, Bataille raises the ethical problems of sovereignty, of "the independence of man relative to useful ends."".
- catalog description "v. 1 Consumption -- v. 2-3. The history of eroticism. Sovereignty. (1 v.)".
- catalog extent "3 v. in 2 ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Accursed share.".
- catalog identifier "0942299108 (v. 1)".
- catalog identifier "0942299108 (v. 2-3)".
- catalog identifier "0942299116 (v. 1 : pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0942299116 (v. 2-3 : pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0942299205 (v. 2-3)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Accursed share.".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "1988-1991.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Zone Books,".
- catalog relation "Accursed share.".
- catalog subject "330 19".
- catalog subject "Economic history.".
- catalog subject "Economics Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "Economics.".
- catalog subject "HB173 .B35513 1988".
- catalog tableOfContents "v. 1 Consumption -- v. 2-3. The history of eroticism. Sovereignty. (1 v.)".
- catalog title "Essay on general economy".
- catalog title "Part maudite. English".
- catalog title "The accursed share : an essay on general economy / Georges Bataille ; translated by Robert Hurley.".
- catalog type "text".