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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... spirit ; similarly , the spirit of a dead man does not depend on a clear material reality like that of a living one ; finally , the connection of the animal or plant spirit ( or the like ) with an individual animal or plant is very ...
... spirits , without any sub- stratum of reality . The spirit that is not subordinated to the reality of a mortal body is a god , is purely divine ( sa- , cred ) . Insofar as he is himself a spirit , man is divine ( sacred ) , but he is ...
... spirit , it is man's misfortune to have the body of an animal and thus to be like a thing , but it is the glory of the human body to be the substratum of a spirit . And the spirit is so closely linked to the body as a thing that the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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