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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... anguish . But if sac- rifice is distressing , the reason is that the individual takes part in it . The individual identifies with the victim in the sudden movement that restores it to immanence ( to inti- macy ) , but the assimilation ...
... anguish if he were not the individual ( the thing ) , and it is essentially the fact of being an individual that fuels his anguish . It is in order to satisfy the demands of the thing , it is insofar as the world of things has posited ...
... anguish . But if man surrendered unreservedly to immanence , he would fall short of human- ity ; he would achieve it ... anguished concentration of sacrifice sets it loose . The festival assembles men whom the 53 SACRIFICE , THE FESTIVAL ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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