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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Georges Bataille. The Sacred All peoples have doubtless conceived this supreme being , but the operation seems to have ... sacred obviously is not that of the animal lost in the mists of continuity where nothing is distinct . In the first ...
... sacred , and suffused with anguish . The Festival The sacred is that prodigious effervescence of life that , for the sake of duration , the order of things holds in check , and that this holding changes into a breaking loose , that is ...
... sacred is itself divided : the dark and malefic sacred is opposed to the white and beneficent sacred and the deities that partake of the one or the other are neither rational nor moral . By contrast , in the dualist evolution the divine ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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