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Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 2)

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The Limits of Utility

Batai posits a difference between the self-sacrifice of the laughing German soldier in the First World War and that of the monk. Given Batai's Nietzscheanism, the ascetic monk is not going to be an entirely favorable figure for Batai. But there seems to be a value judgment at the end of that chapter in the limits of the useful where he does make a distinction between these ruptures.

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