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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... essentially the fact of being an individual that fuels his anguish . It is in order to satisfy the demands of the thing , it is insofar as the world of things has posited his duration as the basic condition of his worth , that he learns ...
... essentially as a thing . It subor- dinates itself to ends that it affirms : it is the administra- tion of reason . But it could never allow another empire to exist at its frontier as an equal . Every presence around it is ordered ...
... essentially those that ensure the order of things . They sometimes take up prohibitions that were established by the intimate order ( such as the one for- bidding murder ) . But morality chooses from among the rules of the intimate ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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