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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... negation that is violence , that is impersonally in the world . Now , in its nega- tion the movement of transcendence is no less opposed to violence than it is to the thing that violence destroys . The preceding analysis clearly shows ...
... negation of the value of works - in the affirmation of a complete absence of relations between divine grace and • merits . The negation of the value of works – after the rational exclusion of the sensuous world and the immola- tion of ...
... negation of their value , which surrenders and confines man to them , changing their meaning . The negation of their value replaces the world of works sub- ordinated to the intimate order with a world in which their sovereignty is ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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