Theory of ReligionTheory 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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... longer , under way , the community link to the festival is given in operative forms , whose chief ends are the prod- ucts of labor , the crops , and the herds . There is no clear consciousness of what the festival actually is ( of what ...
... longer an operation whose outcome implies duration , that is , at the level where clarity , which is the effect of the operation , is no longer given . War : The Illusions of the Unleashing of Violence to the Outside A society's ...
... longer any intimacy between him and this world . This world is in fact imma- nent to him but this is insofar as he is no longer charac- terized by intimacy , insofar as he is defined by things , and is himself a thing , being a ...
Contents
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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