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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... reflection of the world of things . And this autonomous determination of conscious- ness brings about , in dualism , a profound alteration in the representation of the world . Originally , within the divine world , the beneficent and ...
... reflection constitutes , from being , at the moment of his fulfillment , man of lost inti- macy . Doubtless intimacy is not foreign to him ; it could not be said that he knows nothing of it , since he has a recollection of it . But this ...
... reflection on the profane thing , on the intimacy of sacrifice , but it was then entirely consumed by anguish , obsessed by the feel- ing of the sacred . Thus the clear consciousness of objects was given only to the extent that most of ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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