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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... mediation of his divinity ) , but he is divine only insofar as he opposes reason and the good ; and if he is a pure rational morality , he owes his remaining divinity to a name , and to a pro- pensity to endure on the part of that which ...
... mediation . But the divinity intentionally invokes crime ; mediation is the joint accomplishment of violence and of the being that it rends . In reality the sacrifice of the moral divinity is never the unfathomable mystery that one ...
... mediation brought in relations that were just as ambiguous but more complex . Theoretically , the use of production was sub- ordinated to morality , but morality and the divine world were profoundly interdependent . The divine world ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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