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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... consumption until the moment it gives out . No one knew it was there when it was ; it was overlooked in favor of real things : death was one real thing among others . But death suddenly shows that the real society was lying . Then it is ...
... consumption of resources is subordinated to the need for duration , to the violence of an unconditional consumption ; what is impor- tant is to leave a world of real things , whose reality derives from a long term operation and never ...
... consumption requires victims at the top who are not only the useful wealth of a people , but this people itself ; or at least , elements that signify it and that will be destined for sacrifice , this time not owing to an alienation from ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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