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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... sense of continuity was too strong , as if the animal or divine continuity of living beings with the world had at first seemed limited , impoverished by a first clumsy attempt at a reduction to an objective individuality . There is ...
... sense of the sacred . This horror is ambiguous . Undoubtedly , what is sacred attracts and possesses an incomparable value , but at the same time it appears vertiginously danger- ous for that clear and profane world where mankind situ ...
... sense the word has in the " conso- lations " of the mystics ) is in a sense bitterly tied to the fact that it cannot last , but it is precisely the disappear- ance of duration , and of the neutral behaviors associated with it , that ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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