Theory of Religion

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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.

"Religion," according to Bataille, "is the search for a lost intimacy." In a brilliant and tightly reasoned argument, he proceeds to develop a "general economy" of man's relation to this intimacy: from the seamless immanence of animality to the shattered world of objects and the partial, ritual recovery of the intimate order through the violence of the sacrifice. Bataille then reflects on the archaic festival, in which he sees not only the glorious affirmation of life through destructive consumption but also the seeds of another, more ominous order -- war.

Bataille then traces the rise of the modern military order, in which production ceases to be oriented toward the destruction of a surplus and violence is no longer deployed inwardly but is turned to the outside. In these twin developments one can see the origins of modern capitalism.

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The work of the mason , who assembles , is the work that matters . Thus the
adjoining bricks , in a book , should not be less visible than the new brick , which
is the book . What is offered the reader , in fact , cannot be an element , but must
be ...
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For this reason , I have excluded discussion of those forms as well as references
pertaining to them . was * The editor of Bataille's complete works notes that this
table wa not found I was all the less inclined to link these developments.
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It merely had forms of mediation that were 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 principle within the
limits of ...

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Where This Book Is Situated
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Animality
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The Military Order
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affirmation anguish animal appears archaic become body brings ceases clear consciousness clearly closed complete concern condition consumption continuity contrary course death defined definition Desire destroyed destruction developed distinct divine divine world dualism duration eats elements empire essentially evil existence fact festival finally forces forms given gives human immanence implies impossibility individual insofar intelligible intimacy intimate order knowledge labor least less limits linked longer lost matter meaning mediation military order mind morality movement mythical nature necessary never object offered operation opposed opposite order of things organism plant positing possible precisely present principle production profane pure rational real order reality reason reduced reflection regarded relation religion religious remains restored result reveals sacred sacrifice salvation self-consciousness sense separate situation sovereign sovereignty spirit subordinated takes theory thought tion tool transcendence true universal violence whole world of things

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Georges Bataille was a French poet, novelist, and philosopher. He was born in Billon, Puy-de-Dome, in central France on September 10, 1897. His father was already blind and paralyzed from syphilis when Bataille was born. In 1915, Bataille's father died, his mind destroyed by his illness. The death marked his son for life. While working at the Bibliotheque National in Paris during the 1920s, Bataille underwent psychoanalysis and became involved with some of the intellectuals in the Surrealist movement, from whom he learned the concept of incongruous imagery in art. In 1946 he founded the journal Critique, which published the early work of some of his contemporaries in French intellectual life, including Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. Bataille believed that in the darkest moments of human existence-in orgiastic sex and terrible death-lay ultimate reality. By observing them and even by experiencing them, actually in sex and vicariously in death, he felt that one could come as close as possible to fully experiencing life in all its dimensions. Bataille's works include The Naked Beast at Heaven's Gate (1956), A Tale of Satisfied Desire (1953), Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo (1962), and The Birth of Art: Prehistoric Painting (1955). Bataille died in Paris on July 8, 1962.

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TítuloTheory of Religion
Zone Books
AutorGeorges Bataille
Traducido porRobert Hurley
Ediciónreimpresa
EditorZone Books, 1989
Procedencia del originalUniversidad de Michigan
Digitalizado21 Jul. 2010
ISBN0942299086, 9780942299083
Largo126 páginas
  
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