How Long to Read The Accursed Share: Consumption

How Long Does it Take to Read The Accursed Share: Consumption?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 27 minutes to read The Accursed Share: Consumption by Georges Bataille

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The "Accursed Share "provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. Unlike conventional economic models based on notions of scarcity, Bataille's theory develops the concept of excess: a civilization, he argues, reveals its order most clearly in the treatment of its surplus energy. The result is a brilliant blend of ethics, aesthetics, and cultural anthropology that challenges both mainstream economics and ethnology. The three volumes of "The Accursed Share" address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. The first volume, the only one published before Bataille's death, treated this paradox in economic terms, showing that "it is not necessity but its contrary, luxury, that presents living matter and mankind with their fundamental problems." In the second and third volumes, "The History of Eroticism" and "Sovereignty", Bataille explores the same paradox of utility from an anthropological and an ethical perspective, respectively. "The History of Eroticism" analyzes the fears and fascination, the prohibitions and transgressions attached to the realm of eroticism as so many expressions of the "uselessness" of erotic life. In the third volume, Bataille raises the ethical problems of sovereignty, of "the independence of man relative to useful ends."

How long is The Accursed Share: Consumption?

The Accursed Share: Consumption by Georges Bataille is 204 pages long, and a total of 51,816 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Accursed Share: Consumption Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 43 minutes to read The Accursed Share: Consumption aloud.

What Reading Level is The Accursed Share: Consumption?

The Accursed Share: Consumption is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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