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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Georges Bataille. CHAPTER III Mediation The General Weakness of Moral Divinity and the Strength of Evil Precisely because awakening is the meaning of dualism , the inevitable sleep that follows it reintroduces evil as a major force . The ...
... moral divinity . The one who undergoes the violence of evil can also be called the mediator , but this is insofar as ... divinity intentionally invokes crime ; mediation is the joint accomplishment of violence and of the being that it ...
Georges Bataille. and the divine splendors is even more painful than in the moral work , justified by reason . - The effect of works is eventually to reduce divinity and the desire for divinity - once again to thinghood . The basic ...
Contents
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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