The Accursed Share, Volume I by Georges Bataille

The Accursed Share, Volume I

Georges Bataille with Robert Hurley (Translator)

200 pages first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction economics philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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