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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... contrary , it gives it the truth of the impossible , the truth of a scream . The basic paradox of this " theory of religion , " which posits the individual as a “ thing , " and a negation of intimacy , brings a powerlessness to light ...
... contrary . The reality of a profane world , of a world of things and bodies , is established opposite a holy and mythical world . Within the limits of continuity , everything is spiritual ; 37 HUMANITY AND THE PROFANE WORLD.
... contrary an intimacy that is not sepa- rated from anything ( except that which separates itself from this intimacy , thus it , and with it the whole world of separate things ) . The Rational Exclusion of the Tangible World and the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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