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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... slave a thing presupposed the prior institution of work . But the free worker was a thing voluntarily and for a given time . Only the slave , whom the military order has made a commodity , draws out the complete conse- quences of the ...
... slave insofar as the latter is his property and his thing . It should not be confused with the movements of violence that have the outside , the enemy , as their object . In this respect the sacrifice of a slave is far from being pure ...
... slaves . In keeping with its principles , it could compensate for these acquisi- tions by means of ritual slaughters . The military order organizes the yield of wars into slaves , that of slaves into labor . It makes conquest a ...
Contents
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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