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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... finally of prehistoric animals , as well as plants , rocks , and bodies of water , as if they were things , but to describe a landscape tied to these condi- tions is only nonsense , or a poetic leap . There was no landscape in a world ...
... finally , from that unknowable truth which , from myself to the world , appears to me only to slip away . The Animal Is in the World like Water in Water I will speak of that unknowable later . For the moment , I need to set apart from ...
... finally , the subject determining itself . This means in other words that we do not know ourselves distinctly and clearly until the day we see our- selves from the outside as another . Moreover , this will depend on our first having ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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