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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... possible to situate clearly and distinctly , at least so it appears , that which in theory cannot be known in the same way . Thus , having deter- mined stable and simple things which it is possible to make , men situated on the same ...
... possible only because of this powerlessness of consciousness to take it for what it is . The basic problem of religion is given in this fatal misunderstanding of sacrifice . Man is the being that has lost , and even rejected , that ...
... possible , I have tried to present the foregoing logical movement in the form it would have in the final state of consciousness , that is , detached from an elabora- tion of its historical or ethnographic forms . For this reason , I ...
Contents
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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