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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... awakening that which cannot be grasped but which slips away precisely as a déjà vu . For him this déjà vu is utterly different from that which he sees , which is always separated from him - and for the same reason from itself . It is ...
... awakening , a pure unin- telligibility ) is , within the sensuous world , a destruction at once too complete and impotent . Doubtless the destruction of the thing in the archaic world had an opposite virtue and impotence . It did not ...
... awakened state , on a level to which violence alone has the force to raise us . But if it is true that an exceptional ... awakening has the meaning of an introduction to the somnolence that follows it . The dualism of transcendence is ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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