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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... linked to the very idea of philosophy : how to get out of the human situation . How to shift from a reflection subordi- nated to necessary action , condemned to useful distinc- tion , to self - consciousness as consciousness of the ...
... linked to the return to immanence is nonetheless based on the fact that the vic- tim is the thing , just as the sacrificer is the individual . The separate individual is of the same nature as the thing , or rather the anxiousness to ...
... linked to the profane world , the principles of reason and morality . The sacred is itself divided : the dark and malefic sacred is opposed to the white and beneficent sacred and the deities that partake of the one or the other are ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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