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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... body , like those of men , and the autonomous spirits of the supreme being , of animals , of dead people , and so on ... body is a god , is purely divine ( sa- , cred ) . Insofar as he is himself a spirit , man is divine ( sacred ) , but ...
... body . But the positing of a world of mythical spirits and the supreme value it receives are naturally linked to the definition of the mortal body as being opposed to the mind . The dif- ference between the mind and the body is by no ...
... body is formidably complex . Insofar as he is spirit , it is man's misfortune to have the body of an animal and thus to be like a thing , but it is the glory of the human body to be the substratum of a spirit . And the spirit is so ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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