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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... destruction , but though it sometimes goes so far as to destroy completely ( as in a holocaust ) , the destruction that sacrifice is intended to bring about is not annihilation . The thing - only the thing - is what sacrifice means to ...
... destruction at once too complete and impotent . Doubtless the destruction of the thing in the archaic world had an opposite virtue and impotence . It did not destroy the thing universally by a single operation ; it destroyed the thing ...
... destruction of resources was supposed to favor production owing precisely to its unproductive nature ( its ) divine nature ) , the society of mediation , claiming salva- tion as its unproductive end , proposed to achieve that end ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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