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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... production was only an anxious reserva- tion ; in reality , production was subordinated to nonproductive destruction . In the military order , the available resources of the world of things were allocated , in principle , to the growth ...
... production . The ambiguity of archaic society continued , but whereas in archaic soci- ety the destruction of resources was supposed to favor production owing precisely to its unproductive nature ( its divine nature ) , the society of ...
... production is capable of fully revealing the meaning of production , which is the nonproductive consumption of wealth - the fulfillment of self - consciousness in the free outbursts of the intimate order . But the moment when ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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