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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... mythical world , within which the hierarchical differences are usu- ally slight . The supreme being , the sovereign deity , the god of heaven , is generally only a more powerful god of the same nature as the others . The gods are simply ...
... 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 body is by no means the same as that between ...
... mythical determi- nations . In the first conception , where the tool estab- lished the transcendence of the object , it was only in the confused form of the spirit that consciousness defined its object . So it was not a clear ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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