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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... necessary to work in order to be the thing of fear : man is an individual to the extent that his appre- hension ties him to the results of labor . But man is not , as one might think , a thing because he is 51 SACRIFICE , THE FESTIVAL ...
... necessary either for intimacy or for the operation to be eliminated . But , being reduced to thing- hood by the operation , all that he can do is to undertake the contrary operation , a reduction of the reduction . In other words , the ...
... necessary . But this cannot be done in the empyrean , that is , in unreality , to which the religious approach usually leads . The moment of decision demands , on the contrary , a consideration of the poorest and least intimate aspects ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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