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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... Precisely because awakening is the meaning of dualism , the inevitable sleep that follows it reintroduces evil as a major force . The flatness to which a dualism without transcendence is limited opens up the mind to the sovereignty of ...
... 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 productive operations . In this ambiguous per- spective ...
... precisely when the world of production no longer knows what to do with its products . The Clear Consciousness of Things , or , Science The condition for achieving clear self - consciousness is sci- ence , which is the attainment of a ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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