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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... matter if the goshawk eating the hen does not distinguish it clearly from itself , in the same way that we distinguish an object from ourselves . The distinction requires a positing of the object as such . There does not exist any ...
... matter of fact , that is a superficial view . What has no place in the world of things , what is unreal in the real world is not exactly death . Death actually discloses the imposture of reality , not only in that the absence of dura ...
... matter is surpassed . The intellect or the concept , situated outside time , is defined as a sovereign order , to which the world of things is subordinated , just as it subordinated the gods of mythology . In this way the intelligible ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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