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The Accursed Share 1: Consumption

by Georges Bataille · 1949

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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, 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.

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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thisanthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of thiseconomicseconomicsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 200 pages

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