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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... Insofar as it is spirit , the human reality is holy , but it is profane insofar as it is real . Animals , plants , tools , and other controllable things form a real world with the bodies that control them , a world subject to and ...
... insofar as he subjects himself to annihilation , insofar as he renounces himself . The ordi- nary victim of evil , who invoked the god of vengeance , could not receive this name since he had involuntarily undergone the violence of ...
... Insofar as I destroy it in the field of my clear consciousness , this table ceases to form a distinct and opaque screen between the world and me . But this table could not be destroyed in the field of my conscious- ness if I did not ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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