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The Accursed Share: Volume 1 Book

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. 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...

  • BookDepository

    The Accursed Share, Volume I : Paperback : ZONE BOOKS : 9780942299113 : 0942299116 : 15 May 1991 : The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher.

  • Pickabook

    Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley (Trans)

  • 0942299116
  • 9780942299113
  • Georges Bataille
  • 15 May 1991
  • Zone Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 200
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