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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... real world remains as a residuum of the birth of the divine world : real animals and plants separated from their spiritual truth slowly rejoin the empty objectivity of tools ; the mortal body is gradually assimilated to the mass of ...
... real world to such a degree that death no longer has a place in it . But it is for this very reason that death means everything to it . The weakness ( the contradiction ) of the world of things is that it imparts an unreal character to ...
... real world can only have a neutral image of life , that life's intimacy does not reveal its dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out . No one knew it was there when it was ; it was overlooked in favor of real things : death was ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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