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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... offered the reader , in fact , cannot be an element , but must be the ensemble in which it is inserted : it is the whole human assemblage and edifice , which must be , not just a pile of pile of scraps , but rather a self ...
... offered man all the fascination of the sacred world , as against the poverty of the profane tool ( of the discontinuous object ) . The sense of the sacred obviously is not that of the animal lost in the mists of continuity where nothing ...
... offering is rescued from all utility . This is so clearly the precise meaning of sacrifice , that one sacrifices what is useful ; one does not sacrifice luxuri- ous objects . There could be no sacrifice if the offering were destroyed ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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