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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Georges Bataille. true end , which would serve no purpose . What a " true end " reintroduces is the continuous being , lost in the world like water is lost in water : or else , if it were a being as distinct as a tool , its meaning would ...
... true that an exceptional violence is released in transcendence at the moment of its movement , if it is true that it is the very awakening of possibility - precisely because so complete a violence cannot be maintained for long- the ...
... true that a cohesion must necessar- ily distance itself from the capricious data of the historical world , there is not one of these data that one should not try to reduce to the whole and only insofar as the whole has been polished by ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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