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The Accursed Share Consumption
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Author : Georges Bataille
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Accursed Share Consumption written by Georges Bataille and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Economic history categories.
The Accursed Share Volume I
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Author : Georges Bataille
language : en
Publisher: Zone Books
Release Date : 1988-06-01
The Accursed Share Volume I written by Georges Bataille and has been published by Zone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
In this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share, the surplus energy that any system, natural or cultural, must expend; it is this expenditure, according to Bataille, that most clearly defines a society. His examples include sacrifice among the Aztecs, potlatch among the Northwest Coast Indians, military conquest in Islam, and Buddhist monasticism in Tibet. In this way, Bataille proposes a theory of a “general economy” based on excess and exuberance that radically revises conventional economic models of scarcity and utility. A brilliant blend of economics and aesthetics, ethics and anthropology, The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille’s philosophic work. It will be of particular interest not only to readers of his fiction and essays but also to cultural theorists, anthropologists, and economists of all schools.
The Accursed Share
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Author : Georges Bataille
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Accursed Share written by Georges Bataille and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Economic history categories.
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."
The Accursed Share
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Author : Georges Bataille
language : en
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The Accursed Share written by Georges Bataille and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Economic history categories.
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 Accursed Share Volumes Ii Iii
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Author : Georges Bataille
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Accursed Share Volumes Ii Iii written by Georges Bataille and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Business & Economics categories.
This Zone edition includes in a single volume a reconstruction, based on the versions published in Bataille's posthumous collected works, of his intended continuation of The Accursed Share.
Georges Bataille
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Author : Michel Surya
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2002
Georges Bataille written by Michel Surya and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Translated by Krzysztof Filjalkowski and Michael Richardson Winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt for Biography Georges Bataille (1897–1962), philosopher, writer and founder of the influential literary review Critique, had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard, and his ideas have been the subjets of recent debates in a wide range of disciplines. In this acclaimed intellectual biography Michel Surya enters into a complicity with Bataille's oeuvre to provide a detailed exposition of its themes as they developed against the backdrop of his life. The essence of Bataille's life and work were defined by transience and effacement, reflecting a will both to contest the impermanence of things and to confront death. His troubled childhood, his relationships with surrealism and his paradoxical position at the heart of twentieth-century French thought are enriched here with testimonies from Bataille's closest acquaintances, making this a vivid and detailed study. Revealing the contexts in which he worked, and the ways in which his work and ideas took shape, Surya sheds essential light on a figure Foucault described as "one of the most important writers of the century."
Agonistic Condition
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Author : Dimitris Vardoulakis
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2025-06-30
Agonistic Condition written by Dimitris Vardoulakis and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
Political theory influenced by philosophy examines the political as the sphere of human interaction that is distinct from politics, the sphere of political institutions and parties. The political is usually described in conflictual terms, such as Marx’s class struggle, Heidegger’s polemos, Ranciere’s dissensus, or the discourse of agonistic democracy.This book challenges the premise of such constructions of agonism, namely, that the political is essentially distinct from means and ends calculations. He argues that this premise is derived from the critique of instrumental reason, which assumes that utilitarianism is correct that instrumental ends are measurable. This forgets an ancient tradition that describes phronesis as the primary ethical and political virtue because it calculates the good, which is however impossible to measure with any certainty.The Agonistic Condition shows that a new consideration of phronesis can help political philosophy and theory to develop more robust conceptions of power that better describe the world we live in.
Review Journal Of Political Philosophy Volume 7 Issue Number 1
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Author : J. Jeremy Wisnewski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-05-27
Review Journal Of Political Philosophy Volume 7 Issue Number 1 written by J. Jeremy Wisnewski and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-27 with Philosophy categories.
This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.
Georges Bataille
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Author : William Pawlett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-24
Georges Bataille written by William Pawlett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with Social Science categories.
In this comprehensive and engaging study Georges Bataille’s central ideas – the sacred, community and eroticism – are explored in detail. Bataille’s project to understand social bonds and energies at their most fundamental level and to re-energise society by challenging individualism is argued to be of continuing relevance to sociological thought. Bataille’s infamous Collège de Sociologie is placed in the intellectual context of Durkheimian and Maussian sociology. Social effervescence, gift exchange, and the dual, ambivalent and volatile nature of the sacred emerge as the central threads of Bataille’s thought, ideas which challenge both capitalist hegemony and the reductive notion of society as exclusively normative and repressive. The study concludes by applying Bataille’s ideas to contemporary issues including de-secularisation and the rise of religious fundamentalism, the vicarious experience of transgressive violence, and finally, to consumerism and the violence of globalisation. The study seeks to reposition Bataille as a key figure in sociological theory.
Understanding Religious Sacrifice
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Author : Jeffrey Carter
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-03-31
Understanding Religious Sacrifice written by Jeffrey Carter and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-31 with Religion categories.
This volume provides a thorough introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. Collected here are twenty five influential selections, each with a brief introduction addressing the overall framework and assumptions of its author. As they present different theories and examples of sacrifice, these selections also discuss important concepts in religious studies such as the origin of religion, totemism, magic, symbolism, violence, structuralism and ritual performance. Students of comparative religion, ritual studies, the history of religions, the anthropology of religion and theories of religion will particularly value the historical organization and thematic analyses presented in this collection.