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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... its contrary . The reality of a profane world , of a world of things and bodies , is established opposite a holy and mythical world . Within the limits of continuity , everything is spiritual ; 37 HUMANITY AND THE PROFANE WORLD.
... world to the other . More exactly , it is the leaving of this world , the leaving of the world , period for , opposite the sensuous world , the intelligible world ― is not so much a different world as it is 73 DUALISM AND MORALITY.
... opposite is accom- plished by the 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 ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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