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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: MIT Press; New Ed edition (1 Sep 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0942299094
ISBN-13: 978-0942299090
Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.3 x 1 cm
Average Customer Review: (1 customer review)
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 308,790 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This text, along with its companion volumes of "The Accursed Share", forms the cornerstone of Bataille's "Copernican" project to overturn not only economic thought but its ethical foundations as well. It draws the links between human religious and economic activities.

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Very abstract at beginning, firms up as it goes along., 1 Jul 1998

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Interesting associations made by the author. The initial chapters are somewhat opaque, but careful reading will allow for understanding. Overall, pretty good, although a bit pretentious. To paraphrase the concept, 'if your deriving utility, you've lost the essence or true reality... that is, if you moved from object to subject, well you've embraced capitalism, you dog! (well, i think thats what he is trying to say...smile).

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