00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862217630 Buklod 20201105160201.0 m | | ta 201105t19931991nyu rb |||| u|eng d 0942299213 (v. 2-3 : pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00038406226 DLC BAG rda eng HB 173 B35513 1993 Bataille, Georges 1897-1962 author. Part maudite. English The accursed share an essay on general economy Georges Bataille ; translated by Robert Hurley. Essay on general economy. New York Zone Books 1993. ©1991. 3 volumes in 2 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Library has volumes 2-3 in 1 only. Includes bibliographical references. v. 1. Consumption -- v. 2. The history of eroticism -- v. 3. Sovereignty. 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." Translation of: La part maudite. Economics. Economic history. Economics Moral and ethical aspects. Hurley, Robert translator. Bataille, Georges 1897-1962. Consumption. Bataille, Georges 1897-1962. History of eroticism. Bataille, Georges 1897-1962. Sovereignty. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN HB 173 B35513 1993 Book