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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... mind unequivo- cally ( the positing of distinct objects was in fact its nega- tion ) . But it had derived a new significance from the contrast it formed to the world of things . This continuity , which for the animal could not be ...
... mind and the body . But the positing of a world of mythical spirits and the supreme value it receives are naturally linked to the definition of the mortal body as being opposed to the mind . The dif- ference between the mind and the ...
... mind ( which must always answer at the same time to two ir- reconcilable demands : lift and preserve the order of things ) . A richer possibility , providing adequate displacements within its limits , is given in mediation . The major ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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