{"product_id":"the-accursed-share-vols-2-and-3-the-history-of-eroticism-and-sovereignty-9780942299205","title":"The Accursed Share  Vols. 2 and 3: The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorges Bataille considered The Accursed Share  his radical critique of economic theories based on rational categories of need  scarcity  and utility  his most important project. In Volume I  he announced two further volumes  The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty  but he never published them in book form. This Zone edition includes in a single volume a reconstruction of completed versions of these texts as published in Batailles posthumous collected works.  Here  Bataille expands on the notion developed in Volume I of an economics based not on the management of scarce resources but on the exuberant consumption of excess production  the accursed share. In its first part  Bataille identifies eroticism as an ideal form of consumption  since in his view it is useless  purposeless. As this expenditure of excess energy demarcates the realm of human autonomy  the study of eroticism leads naturally to an examination of sovereignty  in which Bataille defines the sovereign individual as one who consumes and does not labor  creating a life beyond the realm of utility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647600484405,"sku":"ByrdShop_0942299205","price":208.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780942299205.jpg?v=1781695334","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-accursed-share-vols-2-and-3-the-history-of-eroticism-and-sovereignty-9780942299205","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}