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The Accursed Share

Name: The Accursed Share
ISBN: 0942299116

: an Essay on General Economy, Vol. 1: Consumption

Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization.

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“We accumulate wealth in the prospect of a continual expansion, but in societies different from ours the prevalent principle was the contrary one of wasting or losing wealth, of giving or destroying it. Accumulated wealth has the same sense as work; wealth wasted or destroyed in tribal potlatch has t…”

— Georges Bataille, amazon.com

Tagged: Vetements, Wealth Destruction, Spending Money As Play