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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... it is eaten in order to maintain the life of the one who cultivates it . . . . The absurdity of an end- less deferral only justifies the equivalent absurdity of a true end , which would serve no purpose . What 28 THE BASIC DATA.
... less sacred in comparison with the dark deities . This early shift sets the stage for a decisive change . Reflective thought defines moral rules ; it prescribes uni- versally obligatory relations between individuals and soci- ety or ...
Georges Bataille. て、 in excluding violence by violence ( and he is less so than the excluded violence , which is the necessary mediation of his divinity ) , but he is divine only insofar as he opposes reason and the good ; and if he is ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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