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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... pure objects are , resolves into a hierarchy of spirits . Men and the supreme being , but also , in a first representation , animals , plants , meteors ... are spirits . A scale is built into this conception : the supreme being is in a ...
... pure elements opposed the malefic and impure elements , and both types appeared equally distant from the profane . But if one considers a dominant movement of reflective thought , the divine appears linked to purity , the profane to ...
... pure transcendence toward a pure intelligibility ( which is also , glimpsed all at once , in the awakening , a pure unin- telligibility ) is , within the sensuous world , a destruction at once too complete and impotent . Doubtless the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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