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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... archaic man in that there is no longer any intimacy between him and this world . This world is in fact imma- nent to him but this is insofar as he is no longer charac- terized by intimacy , insofar as he is defined by things , and is ...
... archaic world had an opposite virtue and impotence . It did not destroy the thing universally by a single operation ; it destroyed the thing taken in isolation , by the negation that is violence , that is impersonally in the world . Now ...
... archaic society ; production remained subordinated to nonproductive expenditure . Once the limit of growth was reached , mediation brought in relations that were just as ambiguous but more complex . Theoretically , the use of production ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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