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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... movement of transcendence is no less opposed to violence than it is to the thing that violence destroys . The preceding analysis clearly shows the timidity of that bold advance . It undoubtedly has the same intention as archaic ...
... movement of violence was given independently of evil ( in reason's being torn away from the sensuous world ) . The very violence without which the divinity could not have torn itself away from the order of things is rejected as being ...
... movement that he no longer controlled , a movement whose consequences eventually frightened him . Logically this movement engages a large share of pro- duction in the installation of new equipment . It has elimi- nated the possibility ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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