The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty by Robert Hurley, Georges Bataille

The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty

Robert Hurley, Georges Bataille

464 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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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. In the second and third volumes, T...

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