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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... imma- nence of a living organism in the world is very different : an organism seeks elements around it ( or outside it ) which are immanent to it and with which it must estab- lish ( relatively stabilize ) relations of immanence ...
... imma- nence and immediacy , for that world , which is closed to us , is so to the extent that we cannot discern in it an ability to transcend itself . Such a truth is negative , and we will not be able to establish it absolutely . We ...
... imma- nence that submerged it without apparent protest , whereas man feels a kind of impotent horror in the sense of the sacred . This horror is ambiguous . Undoubtedly , what is sacred attracts and possesses an incomparable value , but ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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