EAN: 9780262047333

THE LIMIT OF THE USEFUL - GEORGES BATAILLE GEBU...

The first English-language translation of an essential  early work key to understanding the
French philosopher's later thought.In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience
(L'expérience intérieure)  the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a
nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of
subjects. With thoughts on ritual sacrifice and military conquest  the nature of laughter and
the mechanisms of capitalism  The Limit of the Useful  as Bataille had planned to title the
work  illuminates the philosopher's later corpus  yet remained unfinished and unpublished in
his lifetime  and untranslated until now.This is the first English-language translation of what
Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott argue is one of Bataille's most structurally consistent
works. Paired with draft essays and plans for The Accursed Share  along with more than one
hundred pages of appendixes and notes  the volume distinctively elaborates Bataille's thought.
The Limit of the Useful spans a decade of rich intellectual ferment in Bataille's life as he
first formulated his challenge to capitalism  engaging with concepts and ideas in ways not seen
in his other published works. The volume bridges the gap between Bataille's surrealist literary
writings and later scientific pretensions  drawing attention to  and filling in  an overlooked
lacuna in his oeuvre.

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