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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... plane of utility , of the tool ; it would no longer be a " true end . " Only a world in which the beings are indis- criminately lost is superfluous , serves no purpose , has nothing to do , and means nothing : it only has a value in ...
... plane on which it is possible to situate clearly and distinctly , at least so it appears , that which in theory cannot be known in the same way . Thus , having deter- mined stable and simple things which it is possible to make , men ...
... plane where manufactured things have appeared to us distinctly . This bringing of elements of the same nature as the subject , or the subject itself , onto the plane of objects is always precarious , uncertain , and unevenly realized ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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