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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... to be the thing of fear : man is an individual to the extent that his appre- hension ties him to the results of labor . But man is not , as one might think , a thing because he is 51 SACRIFICE , THE FESTIVAL , THE SACRED WORLD.
... labor , the crops , and the herds . There is no clear consciousness of what the festival actually is ( of what it is at the moment of its letting loose ) and the festival is not situated distinctly in consciousness except as it is inte ...
... labor of the workers who made them or transported them , with a piece of labor just as useful as theirs . These products of labor allow me to work and I will be able to pay for the work of the butcher , the baker , and the farmer who ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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