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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... festival is finally , if not fet- tered , then at least confined to the limits of a reality of which it is the negation . The festival is tolerated to the extent that it reserves the necessities of the profane world . - Limitation , the ...
... festival as a thing , a definite individualization and a shared project with a view to duration . The festival is not a true return to immanence but rather an amicable reconciliation , full of anguish , between the incompatible ...
... festival and , for this reason , the thing aspect is accentuated . If the festival is not yet , or no longer , under way , the community link to the festival is given in operative forms , whose chief ends are the prod- ucts of labor ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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