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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... World of Things and of the Body as a Thing With the positing of a thing , an object , a tool , an imple- ment , or of a domain of objects ( where the various coequals of the subject itself assume an objective value ) , the world in ...
... world of things has duration as its foundation : no thing in fact has a separate existence , has a meaning , unless ... world to such a degree that death no longer has a place in it . But it is for this very reason that death means ...
... world of things that the lost intimacy is regained . But in reality the world of things is not the world by itself and pure transcendence toward a pure intelligibility ( which is also , glimpsed all at once , in the awakening , a pure ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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