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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... concern for a future time . The Consummation of Sacrifice The power that death generally has illuminates the mean- ing of sacrifice , which functions like death in that it restores a lost value through a relinquishment of that value ...
... characterized by individuality and duration ( of the operation ) . Duration is given to it as a foundation originating in the concern for - enduring that is governed by the operation . At the 84 RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON.
... concern for production was only an anxious reserva- tion ; in reality , production was subordinated to nonproductive destruction . In the military order , the available resources of the world of things were allocated , in principle , to ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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