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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... supreme being , a determination to define a value that is greater than any other . But this desire to increase results in a diminution . The objective personality of the supreme being situates it in the world next to other per- sonal ...
... supreme being , but also , in a first representation , animals , plants , meteors ... are spirits . A scale is built into this conception : the supreme being is in a sense a pure spirit ; similarly , the spirit of a dead man does not ...
... supreme being , of animals , of dead people , and so on , which tend to form a homogeneous world , a mythical world , within which the hierarchical differences are usu- ally slight . The supreme being , the sovereign deity , the god of ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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