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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... less visible than the new brick , which is the book . What is offered the reader , in fact , cannot be an element , but must be the ensemble in which it is inserted : it is the whole human assemblage and edifice , which must be , not ...
... it is eaten in order to maintain the life of the one who cultivates it . . . . The absurdity of an end- less deferral only justifies the equivalent absurdity of a true end , which would serve no purpose . What 28 THE BASIC DATA.
... less pronounced and more pathetic than Christianity . But like Christianity it gave rise to a costly spiritual life . Mysticism and monasticism developed ; the arts remained in princi- ple within the limits of iconoclasm but escaped ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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