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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... operative power and transcendence of the arrow . One could even say that an object thus transposed is not different , in the imagination of the one who conceives it , from what he himself is : this arrow , in his eyes , is capable of ...
... operative power only if its duration is implicitly understood . If it is destroyed as food or fuel is , the eater or the manufactured object preserves its value in duration ; it has a lasting purpose like coal or bread . Future time ...
... operative power ) , and other times is not , but remains unstable , dangerous , and not completely intelligible , is only chance , violence , and threatens to destroy the stable and operative forms . The Negation of the Immanence of the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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