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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... Operation The paradox of a mediation that should not have been does not rest merely on an internal contradiction ... operation ) . Duration is given to it as a foundation originating in the concern for enduring that is governed by the ...
... operation insofar as its effect was supposed to be exerted in the divine order , one arrived at the reign of the autonomous productive operation . Acts ceased to have a subordinate value with regard to rediscovered intimacy ( to ...
... operation . ) Self - consciousness thus escapes the dilemma of the simultaneous requirement of immediacy and of the operation . The immediate negation diverts the operation toward things and toward the do- main of duration . The ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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