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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... man's fel- low creature , and man , perceiving the animality in him- self , regards it as a defect . There is undoubtedly a measure of falsity in the fact of regarding the animal as a thing . An animal exists for itself and in order to ...
... man into a thing a roast , a stew .... In any case , the human atti- tude toward the body is formidably complex . Insofar as he is spirit , it is man's misfortune to have the body of an animal and thus to be like a thing , but it is the ...
... man at the same time : it subjugates nature to man , who makes and uses it , but it ties man to subjugated nature . Nature becomes man's property but it ceases to be immanent to him . It is his on condition that it is closed to him . If ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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