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Title: Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley ISBN: 0-942299-11-6 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 26 March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a work of genius
Comment: Read both books that contain all three volumes: in a way, the summation of Bataille's thoughts and written with clarity. It's not just the consumption-expenditure approach to analysing human activity that's orginial, he is (as he states towards the end of vol. 3) the closest thinker to Nietzsche. That is an assertion that bears merit as Bataille examines in as thorough a way possible (and in many ways supplements and is a good commentary on) Nietzsche's ideas of the overman, which he calls the sovereign man. At the core of his thoughts is Hamlet's last line, 'The rest is silence'. Sovereignty is NOTHING. A brilliant and vital contribution to the century's history of ideas.
Rating: 5
Summary: A thought provoking work connecting religion and economics.
Comment: In this book, Georges Bataille explores the connection between man's religious and economic pursuits. By focusing in on such divergent practices as human sacrifice and ritualized warfare in Aztec society, the practice of "potlach" in native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, Tibetan Lamaism, and the conflagrations of our most recent World Wars, the author seeks to overturn classical models of economics. Instead of economics being driven by individuals seeking to satisfy their personal needs, Bataille proposes that economics is actually a social process that seeks to destroy, excrete, and expend excess goods and services. His unique perspective centers around the idea that the systematic destruction and loss of goods and services is intimately connected to our age old struggle to attain the Beyond. The French philosopher Michel Foucault once stated that Bataille said what had never been said before. After reading this first volume of Bataille's three volume work "The Accursed Share", you can begin to understand why Foucault believed as he did.
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Title: Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille, Robert Hurley ISBN: 0942299094 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 29 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Inner Experience (Suny Series : Intersections : Philosophy and Critical Theory) by Georges Bataille, Leslie A. Boldt ISBN: 0887066356 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14) by Georges Bataille ISBN: 0816612838 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: July, 1985 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille, Bruce Boone, Sylvere Lotringer ISBN: 1557786445 Publisher: Paragon House Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss, W. D. Halls, Mary Douglas ISBN: 039332043X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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