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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... MAX WEBER . The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capital- ism , Macmillan , 1977. Max Weber's famous study linked , for the first time in a precise way , the very possibility of accumulation ( of the use of wealth for developing the ...
Contents
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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