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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... 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 the divine is ...
... complete scission between the intimate order and the order of things had the effect of freeing production from its archaic purpose ( from the nonproductive destruction of its surplus ) and from the moral rules of mediation . The excess ...
... complete scission of the intimate and the real , and in the world of the autonomous thing , that science slowly escaped from the hybrid formulations of con- sciousness . But in its complete success it consummates man's estrangement from ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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