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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... linked to the return to immanence is nonetheless based on the fact that the vic- tim is the thing , just as the sacrificer is the individual . The separate individual is of the same nature as the thing , or rather the anxiousness to ...
... linked to it . " ( We don't know anything concerning anguish except insofar as it is implied in the fact of the impossible operation . ) Self - consciousness thus escapes the dilemma of the simultaneous requirement of immediacy and of ...
... linked , for the first time in a precise way , the very possibility of accumulation ( of the use of wealth for developing the forces of production ) to the positing of a divine world that had no conceivable connection with the here ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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