For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

The Accursed Share

by Bataille, Georges (1988)

Abstract

For some years, being obliged on occasion to answer the question" What are you working on?" I was embarrassed to have to say," A book of political economy." Coming from me, this venture was disconcerting, at least to those who did not know me well.(The interest that is …

Key Passage

In actual fact the quantitative relations of population and tool­making -and, in general, the conditions of economic develop­ment in history -are subject to so many interferences that it is always difficult to determine their exact distribution.  (p.36)

Keywords

Bataille, Nietzsche, French, Political Economy, Economic Theory, Moral Philosophy

Themes

The Accursed Share, Bataille Citations

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