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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... contrary . The reality of a profane world , of a world of things and bodies , is established opposite a holy and mythical world . Within the limits of continuity , everything is spiritual ; 37 HUMANITY AND THE PROFANE WORLD.
... contrary , the objective and in a sense transcendent ( relative to the subject ) positing of the world of things has duration as its foundation : no thing in fact has a separate existence , has a meaning , unless a subsequent time is ...
... contrary operation , a reduction of the reduction . In other words , the weakness of the various religious positions is in having undergone the debasement of the order of things without having tried to modify it . With- out exception ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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