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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... real order must annul neutralize that intimate life and replace it with the thing that the individual is in the society of labor . But it cannot prevent life's disappearance in death from revealing the invisible brilliance of life that ...
... real order . In fact it presupposes the sanction of the divine order . In granting the operative power of the divine over the real , man had in practice subordinated the divine to the real . He slowly reduced its violence to the ...
... real order and pursued in that order . In actual fact the intimate order is subordinated to the real world only in a superficial way . Under the sover- eignty of morality , all the operations that claim to ensure the return of the intimate ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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