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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... matter of fact , that is a superficial view . What has no place in the world of things , what is unreal in the real world is not exactly death . Death actually discloses the imposture of reality , not only in that the absence of dura ...
... matter of fact , external violence is antithetical to sacrifice or the festival , whose violence works havoc within . Only religion ensures a consumption that destroys the very substance of those whom it moves . Armed action destroys ...
... matter of endlessly consuming or destroying – the objects that are produced . This could just as well be done without the least consciousness . But it is insofar as clear consciousness prevails that the objects actually destroyed 103 ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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