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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... appears to me only to slip away . The Animal Is in the World like Water in Water I will speak of that unknowable later . For the moment , I need to set apart from the dazzle of poetry that which , from the standpoint of experience , appears ...
... appears distinctly at the boundary of that which is clear : it is at least distinguishable , externally , from that which is clear . Moreover , the animal accepted the imma- nence that submerged it without apparent protest , whereas man ...
... appears linked to purity , the profane to impurity . In this way a shift is effected starting from the premise that divine immanence is dangerous , that what is sacred is malefic first of all , and destroys through contagion that which ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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