Introduction: on shortage, excess, and expenditure
Rereading Bataille
Bruno, Sade, Bataille : matter and energy, death and generosity
Bataille's ethics : mechanized waste and intimate expenditure
Bataille's religion : the counter-book and the death of God
Bataille's city : elevation, divine eroticism, and the mortal fall
Expenditure and depletion
Orgiastic recycling : expenditure and postsustainability
The atheological text: ecology, law, and the collapse of literalism
An unknowable future? : expenditure in a time of depletion.
Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability by Allan Stoekl. ISBN 9780816648191. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.