Accursed Share
Accursed Share Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. The Accursed…
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Accursed Share
Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher.
The result is a brilliant blend of ethics, aesthetics, and cultural anthropology that challenges both mainstream economics and ethnology. 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.