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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... continuity that the rival's death does not reestab- lish . This continuity was not called into question , but rather the identity of desires of two beings set one against the other in mortal combat . The apathy that the gaze of the ...
... continuity was too strong , as if the animal or divine continuity of living beings with the world had at first seemed limited , impoverished by a first clumsy attempt at a reduction to an objective individuality . There is every ...
... continuity from the subject's point of view . But the unreal world of sovereign spirits or gods estab- lishes reality , which it is not , as its contrary . The reality of a profane world , of a world of things and bodies , is ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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