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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... developed with their end in view , consciousness posits them as objects , as interruptions in the indistinct continuity . The developed tool is the nascent form of the non - I . The tool brings exteriority into a world where the subject ...
... developed posing of the problem of man's reduction to thinghood . Only in a world where the thing has reduced everything , where what was once opposed to it reveals the poverty of equivocal positions – and inevitable shifts - can ...
... developed ; the arts remained in princi- ple within the limits of iconoclasm but escaped rational simplification in every way . Owing to the relatively small part played by internal violence , Islam was even the most stable of the ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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