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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... its contrary . The reality of a profane world , of a world of things and bodies , is established opposite a holy and mythical world . Within the limits of continuity , everything is spiritual ; 37 HUMANITY AND THE PROFANE WORLD.
... opposite of a thing which an unlimited fire is ; it spreads , it radiates heat and light , it suddenly inflames and blinds in turn . Sacrifice burns like the sun that slowly dies of the prodigi- ous radiation whose brilliance our eyes ...
... to the other . More exactly , it is the leaving of this world , the leaving of the world , period - for , opposite the sensuous world , the intelligible world is not so much a different world as it is 73 DUALISM AND MORALITY.
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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