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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... element with which it shares ) . But the tool is subordinated to the man who uses it , who can modify it as he pleases , in view of a particular result . The tool has no value in itself - like the subject , or the world , or the elements ...
... elements that were and nonetheless remained continuous with the world , such as animals , plants , other men , and finally , the subject determining itself . This means in other words that we do not know ourselves distinctly and clearly ...
... elements opposed the malefic and impure elements , and both types appeared equally distant from the profane . But if one considers a dominant movement of reflective thought , the divine appears linked to purity , the profane to impurity ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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