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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... world of things is subordinated , just as it subordinated the gods of mythology . In this way the intelligible world ... sensuous world , the intelligible world ― is not so much a different world as it is 73 DUALISM AND MORALITY.
... sensuous world , a destruction at once too complete and impotent . Doubtless the destruction of the thing in the archaic world had an opposite virtue and impotence . It did not destroy the thing universally by a single operation ; it ...
... sensuous world and the immola- tion of the divinity - is the third way in which the divine is wrenched away from the order of things . But this admir- able refusal makes one think of the fool who jumped into the river to get out of 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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