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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... death no longer has a place in it . But it is for this very reason that death means everything to it . The weakness ( the contradiction ) of the world of things is that it imparts an unreal character to death even though man's ...
... death . The real order must annul neutralize that intimate life and replace it with the thing that the individual is in the society of labor . But it cannot prevent life's disappearance in death from revealing the invisible brilliance ...
... death generally has illuminates the mean- ing of sacrifice , which functions like death in that it restores a lost value through a relinquishment of that value . But death is not necessarily linked to it , and the most solemn sacrifice ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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