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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... nature and man at the same time : it subjugates nature to man , who makes and uses it , but it ties man to subjugated nature . Nature becomes man's property but it ceases to be immanent to him . It is his on condition that it is closed ...
... nature . I call you back to the intimacy of the divine world , of the profound immanence of all that is . ” The Unreality of the Divine World Of course this is a monologue and the victim can neither understand nor reply . Sacrifice ...
... nature ( its divine nature ) , the society of mediation , claiming salva- tion as its unproductive end , proposed to achieve that end through productive operations . In this ambiguous per- spective , nonproductive destruction kept a ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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