Foreword: Why Bataille Now? / Alphonso Lingis
Introduction / Shannon Winnubst
Part 1: Situating Bataille
Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer
Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling
The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche
Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression
Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst
Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk
Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown
Part 3: Bodies and animality
The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter
Slaughter and anima-lēthē / Lucio Angelo Privitello
Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland
Part 4: Sovereign politics
The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello
Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr.
Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl.