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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... unleashing of divine forces - and seem less sacred in comparison with the dark deities . This early shift sets the stage for a decisive change . Reflective thought defines moral rules ; it prescribes uni- versally obligatory relations ...
... unleashing ) , to the sanction of the order of things . Like the operation of sacrifice , it does not condemn , in themselves , the limited unleashings of de facto violence , which have rights in the world next to the order of things ...
... unleashing that overturns the order of things , but it deflects the violence onto itself and thus no longer serves that order : it ceases to be enslaved to it as things them- selves are . In this way it elevates the sovereign good ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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