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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... presents us with a more disconcerting enigma . In picturing the uni- verse without man , a universe in which only the ... present , we speak finally of prehistoric animals , as well as plants , rocks , and bodies of water , as if they ...
... present not intimacy without me . What does restored intimacy mean in itself if it escapes me ? Through recollec- - tion , the transcendence of reason momentarily rescued thought from 88 RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON.
... present the foregoing logical movement in the form it would have in the final state of consciousness , that is , detached from an elabora- tion of its historical or ethnographic forms . For this reason , I have excluded discussion of ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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