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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... plant – is not subordinated to it ( like- wise , the subject cannot be subordinated , in an immediate sense , to the ... plant ; the plant is cultivated in order to be eaten ; it is eaten in order to maintain the life of the one who ...
... plant , the meteor ; they are also attributed to the entire world . * The Positing of Things as Subjects This first ... plants , those meteors , or those men that the object's transcendence , ascribed to them , withdraws from the con ...
... plants , meteors ... are spirits . A scale is built into this conception : the supreme being is in a sense a pure ... plant is very vague : such spirits are mythical – independent of the given realities . Under these condi- - tions ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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