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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... gives it the truth of the impossible , the truth of a scream . The basic paradox of this " theory of religion , " which posits the individual as a “ thing , " and a negation of intimacy , brings a powerlessness to light , no doubt , but ...
... gives out . No one knew it was there when it was ; it was overlooked in favor of real things : death was one real thing among others . But death suddenly shows that the real society was lying . Then it is not the loss of the thing , of ...
... give as one gives coal to the furnace . But the furnace ordinarily has an undeniable utility , to which the coal is subordinated , whereas in sacrifice the offering is rescued from all utility . This is so clearly the precise meaning of ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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