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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... least distinguishable , externally , from that which is clear . Moreover , the animal accepted the imma- nence that submerged it without apparent protest , whereas man feels a kind of impotent horror in the sense of the sacred . This ...
... are produced . This could just as well be done without the least consciousness . But it is insofar as clear consciousness prevails that the objects actually destroyed 103 will not destroy humanity itself . The destruction of the.
... least clear but the most divine and the most common , ceases to be closed to us , the whole of human experience is restored to us . And if we raise ourselves personally to the highest degree of clear consciousness , it is no longer the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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