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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... distinct as a tool , its meaning would have to be sought on the plane of utility , of the tool ; it would no longer be a " true end . " Only a world in which the beings are indis- criminately lost is superfluous , serves no purpose ...
... distinct objects was in fact its nega- tion ) . But it had derived a new significance from the contrast it formed to the world of things . This continuity , which for the animal could not be distinguished from anything else , which was ...
... distinct knowledge . The difficulty of making distinct knowledge and the intimate order coincide is due to their contrary modes of existence in time . Divine life is immediate , whereas knowledge is an operation that requires suspension ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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