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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... operative forms , whose chief ends are the prod- ucts of labor , the crops , and the herds . There is no clear consciousness of what the festival actually is ( of what it is at the moment of its letting loose ) and the festival is not ...
... forms that are implicit but linked to the profane world , the principles of reason and morality . The sacred is ... operative power ) , and other times is not , but remains unstable , dangerous , and not completely intelligible , is only ...
... form of the spirit that consciousness defined its object . So it was not a clear consciousness of the object perceived in ... operative forms and the development of manufacturing techniques in the movements that were aimed at an imperial ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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