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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... enters the circle in which the priest will immolate it , it passes from the world of things which are closed to man and are nothing to him , which he knows 43 Sacrifice, the Festival, and the Principles of the Sacred World.
... closed communities toward the universal . But military activity only aims to give the order of things , as it is , a universal form and value . So long as the limits of the empire were not reached , production had military force as its ...
... closed to us , the whole of human experience is restored to us . And if we raise ourselves personally to the highest degree of clear consciousness , it is no longer the servile thing in us , but rather the sovereign whose presence in ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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