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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... tion of individual perspectives . A basic problem is linked to the very idea of philosophy : how to get out of the human situation . How to shift from a reflection subordi- nated to necessary action , condemned to useful distinc- tion ...
... tion and the sacred anguish of the individual . Because man is not squarely within that order , but only partakes of it through a thing that is threatened in its nature ( in the projects that constitute it ) , intimacy , in the ...
... tion of Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit . The ideas that I have developed here are substantially present in it . The correspondences between the Hegelian analysis and this " theory of religion " would still need to be specified ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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