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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... reveals is the very essence of the spirit , just as the scream of the one that is killed is the supreme affirmation of life . Conversely , man's corpse reveals the complete reduction of the animal body , and therefore the living animal ...
... revealed only in death . The real order must annul neutralize that intimate life and replace it with the thing that ... reveals life in its plenitude and dissolves the real order . Henceforth it matters very little that this real order ...
... reveals the poverty of equivocal positions - and inevitable shifts - can intimacy affirm itself without any more com- promises than the thing . Only the gigantic development of the means of production is capable of fully revealing the ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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