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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... violence , that is impersonally in the world . Now , in its nega- tion the movement of transcendence is no less opposed to violence than it is to the thing that violence destroys . The preceding analysis clearly shows the timidity of ...
... violence consid- ered to be irreducible can capture the interest of a blind consciousness ; and the interest is openly declared if the execration implies a complete opening to evil , with a view to a subsequent purification ; or evil ...
Georges Bataille. て、 in excluding violence by violence ( and he is less so than the excluded violence , which is the necessary mediation of his divinity ) , but he is divine only insofar as he opposes reason and the good ; and if he is ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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