The Limit Of The Useful Av Georges Bataille, Cory Austin Knudson

<b>The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher''s later thought.</b><br><br>In the decade prior to the publication of <i>Inner Experience</i> (<i>L’expérience intérieure</i>), 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, <i>The Limit of the Useful</i>, as Bataille had planned to title the work, illuminates the philosopher’s later corpus, yet it remained unfinished and unpublished in his lifetime, and untranslated until now. <br><br>This is the first English-language translation of what Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott argue is one of Bataille’s most structurally consistent works. Paired with draft essays and plans for <i>The Accursed