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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... condition of self - consciousness , it is not the sufficient condition . By itself , this Desire constitutes only the Sentiment of self . In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a pas- sive quietude , Desire dis - quiets him and ...
... condition for the conscious and fully developed posing of the problem of man's reduction to thinghood . Only in a world where the thing has reduced everything , where what was once opposed to it reveals the poverty of equivocal ...
... condition - necessarily unrealizable - of its adequa- tion to the object . Doubtless this implies from the start a state of mind radically opposed to Hegelian “ satisfaction , ” but here the contraries coincide ( they only coincide ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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