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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... forms that are implicit but linked to the profane world , the principles of reason and morality . The sacred is itself divided : the dark and malefic sacred is opposed to the white and beneficent sacred and the deities that partake of ...
... form it would have in the final state of consciousness , that is , detached from an elabora- tion of its historical or ethnographic forms . For this reason , I have excluded discussion of those forms as well as references pertaining to ...
... forms have a considerable place in history . Hybrid forms , resulting from contacts in time of very different civilizations , also introduce confusion . Finally , it is clear that conditions regularly present at a particular stage may ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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