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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... limits , is given in mediation . The major weakness of dualism is that it offers no legitimate place for violence except in the moment of pure transcendence , of rational exclusion of the sensuous world . But the divinity of the good ...
... limits of the empire were not reached , production had military force as its primary end , and when these limits were reached , military force was pushed into the background . Moreover , except for what was required for the rational ...
... limits of growth , Islam became a perfect economy of salvation . It merely had forms of mediation that were less pronounced and more pathetic than Christianity . But like Christianity it gave rise to a costly spiritual life . Mysticism ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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