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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... fact of regarding the animal as a thing . An animal exists for itself and in order to be a thing it must be dead or domesticated . Thus the eaten animal can be posited as an object only provided it is eaten dead . Indeed it is fully a ...
... fact , killing in the literal sense is not necessary . But the greatest negation of the real order is the one most favorable to the appearance of the mythical order . Moreover , sacrificial killing resolves the painful antinomy of life ...
... fact has a separate existence , has a meaning , unless a subsequent time is posited , in view of which it is constituted as an object . The object is defined as an operative power only if its duration is implicitly understood . If it is ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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