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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... necessary action , condemned to useful distinc- tion , to self - consciousness as consciousness of the being without essence but conscious ? the - The inevitable incompletion does not in any way delay response , which is a movement were ...
... necessary 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 ...
... necessary . But this cannot be done in the empyrean , that is , in unreality , to which the religious approach usually leads . The moment of decision demands , on the contrary , a consideration of the poorest and least intimate aspects ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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