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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... lost in the world like water is lost in water : or else , if it were a being as distinct as a tool , its meaning would have to be sought on the plane of utility , of the tool ; it would no longer be a " true end . " Only a world in ...
... lost , and even rejected , that which he obscurely is , a vague intimacy . Consciousness could not have become clear in the course of time if it had not turned away from its awkward contents , but clear consciousness is itself looking ...
... lost is not outside it ; consciousness turns away from the obscure intimacy of consciousness itself . Religion , whose essence is the search for lost intimacy , comes down to the effort of clear consciousness which wants to be a com ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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