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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... reduced to the order of things . But this generalized reduction , this perfect fulfillment of the thing , is the necessary condition for the conscious and fully developed posing of the problem of man's reduction to thinghood . Only in a ...
... reduced to thing- hood by the operation , all that he can do is to undertake the contrary operation , a reduction of the reduction . In other words , the weakness of the various religious positions is in having undergone the debasement ...
... reduced to intimacy . Of course this counter opera- tion is not in any way opposed to the movement of con- sciousness reduced to that which it essentially is - to that which , from the start , each one of us always knew it was . But ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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