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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... meaning by themselves to the world full of meaning implied by man giving each thing his own . This is why we cannot describe such an object in a precise way . Or rather , the correct way to speak of it can overtly only be poetic , in ...
... meaning to the final dislocation of meanings , of all meaning , which soon proves to be unavoidable . There is only one differ- ence between the absurdity of things envisaged without man's gaze and that of things among which the animal ...
... meaning . What is important is to pass from a lasting order , in which all consumption of resources is subordinated to the need for duration , to the violence of an unconditional consumption ; what is impor- tant is to leave a world of ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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