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. all an impoverishment . There is doubtless , in the inven- tion of a supreme being , a determination to define a value that is greater than any other . But this desire to increase results in a diminution . The objective ...
Georges Bataille. The Sacred All peoples have doubtless conceived this supreme being , but the operation seems to have failed everywhere . The supreme being apparently did not have any prestige com- parable to that which the God of the ...
... Doubtless this majority has let itself be reduced to the order of things . But this generalized reduction , this perfect fulfillment of the thing , is the necessary condition for the conscious and fully developed posing of the problem ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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