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Table of Contents

  1. The Accursed Share, Georges Bataille

  2. “The Notion of Expenditure,” Visions of Excess, Georges Bataille

  3. The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen

  4. The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag

  5. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde

  6. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  7. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

  8. Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti