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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... Destruction - What this negation of the divine value of works makes possible is the reign of autonomous things – in a word , the world of industry . In archaic society , theoretically , the world of things was given as an end for ...
... destruction of the order of things . The intimate order cannot truly destroy the order of things ( just as the order of things has never completely destroyed the intimate order ) . But this real world having reached the apex of its ...
... destruction of objects as such in the field of consciousness . Insofar as I destroy it in the field of my clear consciousness , this table ceases to form a distinct and opaque screen between the world and me . But this table could not ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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