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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... pure objects are , resolves into a hierarchy of spirits . Men and the supreme being , but also , in a first representation , animals , plants , meteors .. are spirits . A scale is built into this conception : the supreme being is in a ...
... pure transcendence , of rational exclusion of the sensuous world . But the divinity of the good cannot be maintained at that degree of purity ; indeed , it falls back into the sen- suous world . It is the object , on the part of the ...
... pure violence ( on the dark and malefic side of the divine world - Varuna and the Gandharva , Romulus and the Luperci ) to the divine order that accords with profane activity ( Mitra and the Brahmans , Numa , Dius Fidius and the ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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