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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... evil , with a view to a subsequent purification ; or evil , evil as such , can reveal to the confused consciousness that it is worth more to it than good . But the different forms of the dualistic attitude never offer anything but a ...
... evil can also be called the mediator , but this is insofar as he subjects himself to annihilation , insofar as he renounces himself . The ordi- nary victim of evil , who invoked the god of vengeance , could not receive this name since ...
... evil ( in reason's being torn away from the sensuous world ) . The very violence without which the divinity could not have torn itself away from the order of things is rejected as being something that must cease . The divinity remains ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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