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The limit of the useful / Georges Bataille ; edited and translated by Cory Austin Knudson, Tomas Elliott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
- Bataille, Georges.
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962. Part maudite.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "The first English translation of key texts by Georges Bataille pertaining to The Accursed Share that also map out his transition from "dissident surrealist" to systematic thinker"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Tale of a Despair
- Constructing the Incomplete Opus: 1938-1944
- "My role . . . is that of a brake": Ambrosino and Bataille
- From Earth to Sun to Sacrifice: The Shape and Structure of The Limit of the Useful
- A Note on the Text
- The Limit of the Useful
- Chapter I: The Galaxy, the Sun, and Man
- I. The Conditions of Human Life Isolated from the Universe
- II. The Universe Encountered by Primitive Man
- Chapter II: Unproductive Expenditure
- I. Glorious Acts in the Aztec Economy
- [II. The Principle of Expenditure or Necessary Loss]14
- III. Economic Activity in Glorious Societies
- IV. The Role of the Church and the Reformation
- V. Protestant America and the Development of Capitalism24
- Chapter III: The World of Private Expenditure
- I. Mature Capitalism
- II. The Degradation of Expenditure
- III. Unemployment
- IV. Individualism
- V. The State, Reason, and Science
- Chapter IV: The Gift of Life
- The Gift of the Self
- "Devotion" and Interest in Wars
- The Law of Concomitance between Expenditures and Gains in Glorious Acts
- Various Armed Struggles Give the Gift of the Self and Generosity Their Power
- Chapter V: Winter and Spring
- The Existence of Societies at the Level of Death
- Horror and Glory
- Hibernal Death and Vernal Death
- Chapter VI: War
- Chapter VII: Sacrifice
- Life in Communication, Not in Isolation
- Laughter
- Preliminary Essays for The Accursed Share
- Economy at the Scale of the Universe
- The Excesses of Energy Caused by the Activity of the Sun
- The Use of Excess by Individuals
- The Use of Excesses in the Extension of the Living World and the Limits of This Use
- The Use of Excesses before the Coming of Man
- Importance and Difficulties of the Problem of Expenditure
- Man as a Solution to the Problem of Extension.
- Man as a Solution to the Problem of Expenditure
- Preliminary Notes to the Writing of The Accursed Share
- The Accursed Share, or The Limit of the Useful
- Dossier of Bataille's Notes and Outlines for The Limit of the Useful
- 1. Aphorisms and General Notes
- 2. Plans and Notes, 1939-1941
- 3. Plans and Notes, 1941-1943
- 4. Notes from March 1944
- 5. Plans and Notes, 19451
- Translators' and Editors' Notes
- The Accursed Share, or The Limit of the Useful: Tables of Contents and Summary of Manuscripts
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Originally published as "L'économie à la mesure de l'univers," "La Limite de l'utile," "Notes pour L'économie à la mesure de l'univers," and "Notes pour La Limite de l'utile" Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1976."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780262371360
- 0262371367
- 9780262371353
- 0262371359
- OCLC:
- 1341211156
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