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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... Human Sacrifice The sacrifices of slaves illustrate the principle according to which what is useful is destined for sacrifice . Sacrifice surrenders the slave , whose servitude accentuates the degradation of 59 SACRIFICE . THE FESTIVAL ...
Georges Bataille. surrenders the slave , whose servitude accentuates the degradation of the human order , to the baleful intimacy of unfettered violence . In general , human sacrifice is the acute stage of a dis- pute setting the ...
... human sacrifice , or even blood sacrifice ... ) . It condemns , in a general way , all useless consumption . But it becomes possible only when sovereignty 70 RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON.
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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