Theory of ReligionTheory 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. "Religion," according to Bataille, "is the search for a lost intimacy." In a brilliant and tightly reasoned argument, he proceeds to develop a "general economy" of man's relation to this intimacy: from the seamless immanence of animality to the shattered world of objects and the partial, ritual recovery of the intimate order through the violence of the sacrifice. Bataille then reflects on the archaic festival, in which he sees not only the glorious affirmation of life through destructive consumption but also the seeds of another, more ominous order -- war. Bataille then traces the rise of the modern military order, in which production ceases to be oriented toward the destruction of a surplus and violence is no longer deployed inwardly but is turned to the outside. In these twin developments one can see the origins of modern capitalism. |
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Thus the letting loose of the festival is finally , if not fettered , then at least
confined to the limits of a reality of which it is the negation . The festival is
tolerated to the extent that it reserves the necessities of the profane world .
Limitation , the ...
Georges Bataille. PART TWO Religion Within the Limits of Reason From the
Military Order O ar V to Industrial Growth CHAPTER I The Military Order ce From
a Balance of TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON.
So long as the 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 ...