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- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subject
- Note
- 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."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Reproduction (note)
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 13, 2023).
- Contents
- Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Tale of a Despair -- Constructing the Incomplete Opus: 1938-Ư1944 -- "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-Ư1941 -- 3. Plans and Notes, 1941-Ư1943 -- 4. Notes from March 1944 -- 5. Plans and Notes, 19451 -- Translators' and Editors' Notes -- Introduction -- The Limit of the Useful
- Preliminary Essays for The Accursed Share -- The Accursed Share, or The Limit of the Useful: Tables of Contents and Summary of Manuscripts -- Dossier of Bataille's Notes and Outlines for The Limit of the Useful -- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 9780262371360
- 0262371367
- 9780262371353
- 0262371359
- LCCN
- 2022000766
- OCLC
- 2022000766
- Author
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962, author.
- Title
The limit of the useful / Georges Bataille ; edited and translated by Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott.
- Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Language
Translated from the French.
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PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers
PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
- Added Author
Knudson, Cory Austin, editor.
Elliott, Tomas, editor.
EBSCOhost
- Other Form:
Print version: Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962. Limit of the useful Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023] 9780262047333 (DLC) 2022000765