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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... condemns the extreme forms of the ostenta- tious destruction of wealth ( thus human sacrifice , or even blood sacrifice ... ) . It condemns , in a ) . It condemns , in a general way , all useless consumption . But it becomes possible ...
... condemns . The Divine Delivered Over to the Operation The paradox of a mediation that should not have been does not rest merely on an internal contradiction . In a general way , it controls the contradiction involved in the lifting and ...
... condemns set free on all sides , but a tacit debate is initiated between the works of salvation , which serve the real order , and those works that escape it , that strict morality contests , and that dedicate their useful resources to ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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