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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... tious destruction of wealth ( thus human sacrifice , or even blood sacrifice ... ) . It condemns , in a general way , all useless consumption . But it becomes possible only when sovereignty 70 RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON.
... sovereignty over that order . They ratio- nalize and moralize divinity , in the very movement where morality and reason are divinized . In this way there appear the elements of the world view that is commonly called dualism and that ...
... sovereignty of violence , at least tended to maintain an anguish that brought a longing for intimacy to an awakened state , on a level to which violence alone has the force to raise us . But if it is true that an exceptional violence is ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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