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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... rational nor moral . By contrast , in the dualist evolution the divine becomes rational and moral and relegates the malefic sacred to the sphere of the profane . The world of the spirit ( having few connections with the first world of ...
... rational exclusion of the sensuous world . But the divinity of the good cannot be maintained at that degree of purity ; indeed , it falls back into the sen- suous world . It is the object , on the part of the believer , of a search for ...
... rational morality , he owes his remaining divinity to a name , and to a pro- pensity to endure on the part of that which is not destroyed from the outside . The Sacrifice of the Divinity In the second form of mediation the violence ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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