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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... human use of tools ; that is , if the tools as middle terms are adapted to the intended result - if their users ... Humanity and the Development of Profane World.
... human- ity ; he would achieve it only to lose it and eventually life would return to the unconscious intimacy of animals . The constant problem posed by the impossibility of being human without being a thing and of escaping the limits ...
... human life raised to universality , seems unassailable despite its insipid results , but for anyone to whom human life is an experience to be carried as far as possible , the universal sum is necessarily that of the religious ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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