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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... eaten and the one that eats , there is no relation of subor- dination like that connecting an object , a thing , to man , who refuses to be viewed as a thing . For the animal , noth- ing is given through time . It is insofar as we are ...
... eaten ; it is eaten in order to maintain the life of the one who cultivates it . . . . The absurdity of an end- less deferral only justifies the equivalent absurdity of a true end , which would serve no purpose . What 28 THE BASIC DATA.
... eaten animal can be posited as an object only provided it is eaten dead . Indeed it is fully a thing only in a roasted , grilled , or boiled form . Moreover , the preparation of meat is not primarily con- nected with a gastronomical ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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