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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... transcendence , where tangible matter is surpassed . The intellect or the concept , situated outside time , is ... transcendence is of a different nature from the inconclusive transcendence of the divine of archaic reli- gion . The ...
... Transcendence A great virtue in the paradox of a transcendence of inti- macy results from the complete negation of the given in- timacy that transcendence is . For the given intimacy is never anything but a contrary of intimacy ...
... transcendence toward a pure intelligibility ( which is also , glimpsed all at once , in the awakening , a pure unin- telligibility ) is , within the sensuous world , a destruction at once too complete and impotent . Doubtless the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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