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The first Englishlanguage 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 (Lexprience intrieure), the twentiethcentury 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, The Limit of the Useful, as Bataille had planned to title the work, illuminates the philosophers later corpus, yet it remained unfinished and unpublished in his lifetime, and untranslated until now.This is the first Englishlanguage translation of what Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott argue is one of Batailles most structurally consistent works. Paired with draft essays and plans for The Accursed Share,along with over a hundred pages of appendixes and notes, the volume distinctively elaborates Batailles thought. The Limit of the Useful spans a decade of rich intellectual ferment in Batailles life as he first formulated his challenge to capitalism, engaging with concepts and ideas in ways not seen in his other published works. The volume bridges the gap between Batailles surrealist literary writings and later scientific pretensions, drawing attention to, and filling in, an overlooked lacuna in his oeuvre.
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