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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... profane tool ( of the discontinuous object ) . The sense of the sacred obviously is not that of the animal lost in the mists of continuity where nothing is distinct . In the first place , while it is 35 HUMANITY AND THE PROFANE WORLD.
... not , as 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.
... profane world , the principles of reason and morality . The sacred is itself divided : the dark and malefic sacred ... profane . The world of the spirit ( having few connections with the first world of spirits – where the dis- tinct ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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