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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... mind cannot dispense with a fulguration of words that makes a fascinating halo for it : that is its richness , its glory , and a sign of sovereignty . But this poetry is only a way by which a man goes from a world full of meaning to the ...
... mind and the body . But the positing of a world of mythical spirits and the supreme value it receives are naturally linked to the definition of the mortal body as being opposed to the mind . The dif- ference between the mind and the ...
... mind radically opposed to Hegelian “ satisfaction , ” but here the contraries coincide ( they only coincide , and the opposition in which they coincide cannot this time be overcome by any synthesis : there is an identity of the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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