The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille - ISBN: 9780262047333
Hardcover
Uncover Bataille’s early, unpublished masterpiece challenging capitalism and exploring human limits.

The Limit of the Useful

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  • Hardcover

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    28 March 2023

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Summary

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, 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,

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262047333
ISBN-10:0262047330
Author:Georges Bataille, Cory Austin Knudson
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:28 March 2023
Weight:567g
Dimensions:203mm x 133mm
About The Author

Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works include The Story of the Eye, The Blue of Noon, The Accursed Share, and Theory of Religion.

Cory Austin Knudson holds a visiting position in Comparative Literature at Eckerd College. His work has appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature, Postmodern Culture, and Environment, Space, Place.

Tomas Elliott is Assistant Professor of English at the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University London.

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