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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... forces , as an archaic social sys- tem did in warfare and festivals . The expenditure of forces continues , but it is subjected to a principle of maxi- mum yield : if the forces are spent , it is with a view to the acquisition of greater ...
... force . The flatness to which a dualism without transcendence is limited opens up the mind to the sovereignty of evil which ... forces of evil never lost their divine value except within the limits of a developed reflection , and their ...
... forces . The complete scission between the intimate order and the order of things had the effect of freeing production from its archaic purpose ( from the nonproductive destruction of its surplus ) and from the moral rules of mediation ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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