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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... animal that another animal eats is not yet given as an object . Between the animal that is eaten and the one that eats , there is no relation of subor- dination like that connecting an object , a thing , to man , who refuses to be ...
... animal eats another scarcely alters a funda- mental situation : every animal is in the world like water in water . The animal situation does contain a component of the human situation ; if need be , the animal can be regarded as a ...
... animal as a thing has become a basic human given . The animal has lost its status as man's fel- low creature , and man , perceiving the animality in him- self , regards it as a defect . There is undoubtedly a measure of falsity in the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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