Battle Born Nevada: Its People, History, and Stories

by Don Lynch and Don Lynch

The three volumes of The Accursed Shareaddress 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 of The Accursed Share,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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913205206
• ISBN13: 9780913205204
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Grace Dangberg Foundation
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 8