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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Georges Bataille. and contagious movement of a purely glorious consump- tion . The sacred is exactly comparable to the ... movement of the festival is given in elementary humanity , but it reaches the plenitude of an effusion only if the ...
... movement that he no longer controlled , a movement whose consequences eventually frightened him . Logically this movement engages a large share of pro- duction in the installation of new equipment . It has elimi- nated the possibility ...
... movement . But above all it offers the advantage of being clear . Unfortunately this clarity has its drawbacks . It tends to deprive my exposition of a virtue that it must claim . As far as possible , I have tried to present the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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