Theory of ReligionTheory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No other work of Bataille’s, and perhaps no other work anywhere since Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, has managed to draw so incisively the links between man’s religious and economic activities. |
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... ger , for example , the food must be destroyed or , in any case , transformed . Thus , all action is " negating . " - Alexandre Kojève Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Contents Where This Book Is Situated Introduction 1 1 PART.
... outside * Ourselves : what existential philosophy calls , after Hegel , for itself ; the object is termed , in the same vocabulary , in itself . insofar as this is possible . But an objectivity of 31 HUMANITY AND THE PROFANE WORLD.
... Hegel , Cornell University Press , 1980. This work is an explica- tion of Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit . The ideas that I have developed here are substantially present in it . The correspondences between the Hegelian analysis and ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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