{"title":"Series: The Accursed Share","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-accursed-share-by-georges-bataille-9780942299212","title":"The Accursed Share","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three volumes of \u003cem\u003eThe Accursed Share\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first volume, the only one published before Bataille's death, treated this paradox in economic terms, showing that \"it is not necessity but its contrary, luxury, that presents living matter and mankind with their fundamental problems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second and third volumes, \u003cem\u003eThe History of Eroticism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e, Bataille explores the same paradox of utility from an anthropological and an ethical perspective, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe History of Eroticism\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the third volume, Bataille raises the ethical problems of sovereignty, of \"the independence of man relative to useful ends.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000760811756,"sku":"9780942299212","price":91.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13343953482523.jpg?v=1763302668"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/series-the-accursed-share.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}