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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... restored to immanence . The virtue of the fes- tival is not integrated into its nature and conversely the letting loose of the festival has been possible only because of this powerlessness of consciousness to take it for what it is ...
... terms are present not intimacy without me . What does restored intimacy mean in itself if it escapes me ? Through recollec- - tion , the transcendence of reason momentarily rescued thought from 88 RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON.
... restored to us . And if we raise ourselves personally to the highest degree of clear consciousness , it is no longer the servile thing in us , but rather the sovereign whose presence in the world , from head to foot , from animality to ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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