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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... closed and inscrutable to us . The animal opens before me a depth that attracts me and is familiar to me . In a sense , I know this depth : it is my own . It is also that which is farthest removed from me , that which deserves the name ...
... closed to him . If he places the world in his power , this is to the extent that he forgets that he is himself the world : he denies the world but it is himself that he denies . Everything in my power declares that I have compelled that ...
... enters the circle in which the priest will immolate it , it passes from the world of things which are closed to - man and are nothing to him , which he 43 Sacrifice, the Festival, and the Principles of the Sacred World.
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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