Theory of ReligionZone Books, 1989 - 126 páginas Theory 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. all an impoverishment . There is doubtless , in the inven- tion of a supreme being , a determination to define a value that is greater than any other . But this desire to increase results in a diminution . The objective ...
... Doubtless intimacy is not foreign to him ; it could not be said that he knows nothing of it , since he has a recollection of it . But this recollection sends him outside a world in which there is nothing that responds to the longing he ...
... Doubtless this implies from the start a state of mind radically opposed to Hegelian “ satisfaction , ” but here the contraries coincide ( they only coincide , and the opposition in which they coincide cannot this time be overcome by any ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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