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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... rational nor moral . By contrast , in the dualist evolution the divine becomes rational and moral and relegates the malefic sacred to the sphere of the profane . The world of the spirit ( having few connections with the first world of ...
... rational exclusion of the sensuous world and the immola- tion of the divinity - is the third way in which the divine is wrenched away from the order of things . But this admir- able refusal makes one think of the fool who jumped into ...
... rational simplification in every way . Owing to the relatively small part played by internal violence , Islam was even the most stable of the different economies of salvation , the one that best ensured the stability of a society . This ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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