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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... Nonproductive Destruction - What this negation of the divine value of works makes possible is the reign of ... nonproductive destruction . In the military order , the available resources of the world of things were allocated , in ...
... destruction of resources was supposed to favor production owing precisely to its unproductive nature ( its divine nature ) , the society of mediation , claiming salva- tion as its unproductive end , proposed to achieve that end through ...
... nonproductive destruction of its surplus ) and from the moral rules of mediation . The excess production could be devoted to the growth of the productive equip- ment , to capitalist ( or postcapitalist ) accumulation . The World of ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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