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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... gives the lie to it , but above all because death is the great affirmer , the wonder - struck cry of life . The real order does not so much reject the negation of life that is death as it rejects the affirmation of intimate life , whose ...
... give as one gives coal to the furnace . But the furnace ordinarily has an undeniable utility , to which the coal is subordinated , whereas in sacrifice the offering is rescued from all utility . This is so clearly the precise meaning of ...
Georges Bataille. alongside it gives the impression of a dethroned sovereign . It is clear that the majority of mankind is right : compared to the industrial rise , the rest is insignificant . Doubtless this majority has let itself be ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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