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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... affirmation of the spirit . What death's definitive impotence and absence reveals is the very essence of the spirit , just as the scream of the one that is killed is the supreme affirmation of life . Conversely , man's corpse reveals ...
... - struck cry of life . The real order does not so much reject the negation of life that is death as it rejects the affirmation of intimate life , whose - ― measureless violence is a danger to the stability 46 THE BASIC DATA.
... affirmation of a complete absence of relations between divine grace and merits . The negation of the value of works - after the rational exclusion of the sensuous world and the immola- tion of the divinity - is the third way in which ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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