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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... course of the exposition . From this viewpoint , animality is immediacy or immanence . The immanence of the animal with respect to its milieu is given in a precise situation , the importance of which is fundamental . I will not speak of ...
... course what it has lost is not outside it ; consciousness turns away from the obscure intimacy of consciousness itself . Religion , whose essence is the search for lost intimacy , comes down to the effort of clear consciousness which ...
... course archaic man did not continually participate in the contagious violence of intimacy , but if he was removed from it , the rituals always kept the power to bring him back to it at the proper time . At the level of the dualistic ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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