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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... relation of subor- dination like that connecting an object , a thing , to man , who refuses to be viewed as a thing . For the animal , noth- ing is given through time . It is insofar as we are human that the object exists in time where ...
... relation to the rest of the world . An atom of nitrogen , of gold , or a molecule of water exist without needing any- thing from what surrounds them ; they remain in a state of perfect immanence : there is never a necessity , and more ...
... relation with the world , with- draws from the world , isolates the plant or the animal which can theoretically be regarded as autonomous worlds , so long as the fundamental relation of nutrition is left aside . The Poetic Fallacy of ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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