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Name: The Accursed Share, Vols. 2 and 3: The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty
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Author: Bataille, Georges
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Georges Bataille considered The Accursed Share, his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need, scarcity, and utility, his most important project. In Volume I, he announced two further volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, but he never published them in book form. This Zone edition includes in a single volume a reconstruction of completed versions of these texts as published in Bataille's posthumous collected works.

Here, Bataille expands on the notion developed in Volume I of an economics based not on the management of scarce resources but on the exuberant consumption of excess production, the accursed share. In its first part, Bataille identifies eroticism as an ideal form of consumption, since in his view it is useless, purposeless. As this expenditure of excess energy demarcates the realm of human autonomy, the study of eroticism leads naturally to an examination of sovereignty, in which Bataille defines the sovereign individual as one who consumes and does not labor, creating a life beyond the realm of utility.

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Title The Accursed Share, Volumes II & III
Author Georges Bataille; Robert Hurley (Translator)
Binding Paperback
Edition Third Printing
Pages 464
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Zone Books, New York
Publication date 1993-09-11
ISBN 9780942299212 / 0942299213
Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
Age range 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Category Philosophy
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87034072
Dewey Decimal Code 330

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Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works include The Story of the Eye, The Blue of Noon, The Accursed Share, and Theory of Religion.

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