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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... Sacrifice and Its Principle The first fruits of the harvest or a head of livestock are sacrificed in order to remove ... sacrifice is destruction , but though it sometimes goes so far as to destroy completely ( as in a holocaust ) , the ...
... sacrifice is to give as one gives coal to the furnace . But the furnace ordinarily has an undeniable utility , to which the coal is subordinated , whereas in sacrifice the offering is rescued from all utility . This is so clearly the ...
... Sacrifice burns like the sun that slowly dies of the prodigi- ous radiation whose brilliance our eyes cannot bear , but it is never isolated and , in a world of individuals , it calls for the general negation of individuals as such ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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