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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... reality . The spirit that is not subordinated to the reality of a mortal body is a god , is purely divine ( sa- , cred ) . Insofar as he is himself a spirit , man is divine ( sacred ) , but he is not supremely so , since he is real ...
... reality . This is what gives the world of sacrifice an appearance of puerile gratuitousness . But one cannot at the same time destroy the values that found reality and accept their limits . The return to immanent intimacy implies a ...
... reality derives from a long term operation and never resides in the moment a world that creates and preserves ( that creates for the benefit of a lasting reality ) . Sacrifice is the antithesis of production , which is accomplished with ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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