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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... archaic social sys- tem did in warfare and festivals . The expenditure of forces continues , but it is subjected to a principle of maxi- mum yield : if the forces are spent , it is with a view to the acquisition of greater forces . Archaic ...
... archaic society ; production remained subordinated to nonproductive expenditure . Once the limit of growth was reached , mediation brought in relations that were just as ambiguous but more complex . Theoretically , the use of production ...
... archaic manifestations of religious feeling appeared to us independently of their meaning , like hieroglyphs that could be deciphered only in a formal way ; but if that meaning is now given , if , in particular , the behavior of ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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