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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... result – if their users perfect them . Insofar as tools are developed with their end in view , consciousness posits them as objects , as interruptions in the indistinct continuity . The developed tool is the nascent form of the non - I ...
... result . The tool has no value in itself - like the subject , or the world , or the elements that are of the same nature as the subject or the world – but only in relation to an antici- pated result . The time spent in making it ...
... resulting from contacts in time of very different civilizations , also introduce confusion . Finally , it is clear ... result of my own contestations and not one of them failed to enrich it , although , past a certain point , I did not ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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