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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... individual and the individual's isolation . There can- not be any philosophy of the individual and the exercise of thought cannot have any other outcome than the nega- tion of individual perspectives . A basic problem is linked to the ...
... individual . If one describes the individual in the operation of sacrifice , he is defined by anguish . But if sac- rifice is distressing , the reason is that the individual takes part in it . The individual identifies with the victim ...
... individual - as - thing in the glorious individual- ity of the warrior . The glorious individual introduces , through a first negation of individuality , the divine order into the category of the individual ( which expresses the order ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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