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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... ment , or of a domain of objects ( where the various coequals of the subject itself assume an objective value ) , the world in which men move about is still , in a funda- mental way , a continuity from the subject's point of view . But ...
... ment of self . When attention was focused on sacrifice , consciousness was at least separated from reflection on the profane thing , on the intimacy of sacrifice , but it was then entirely consumed by anguish , obsessed by the feel- ing ...
... ment . This figure emphasizes the dialectical character of the development whose phases go from opposition to opposition and from stagnation to movement . But above all it offers the advantage of being clear . Unfortunately this clarity ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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