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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... given when one animal eats another . What is given when one animal eats another is always the fellow creature of the one that eats . It is in this sense that I speak of immanence . I do not mean a fellow creature perceived as such , but ...
... given species do not eat one another ... . Perhaps , but this does not matter if the goshawk eating the hen does not distinguish it clearly from itself , in the same way that we distinguish an object from ourselves . The distinction ...
... given violences than was transcendence , whose movement of violence was given independently of evil ( in reason's being torn away from the sensuous world ) . The very violence without which the divinity could not have torn itself away ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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