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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... offered ani- mal enters the circle in which the priest will immolate it , it passes from the world of things which are closed to - man and are nothing to him , which he 43 Sacrifice, the Festival, and the Principles of the Sacred World.
... offering is rescued from all utility . This is so clearly the precise meaning of sacrifice , that one sacrifices what is useful ; one does not sacrifice luxuri- ous objects . There could be no sacrifice if the offering were destroyed ...
... offered victim is itself the divinity . The principle of mediation is given in the sacrifice where the offering is destroyed so as to open a path for the return of the intimate order . But in the mediation of sacrifice the sacrificer's ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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