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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... salvation is led from the start to exceed its limits . Not only are the violences that morality condemns set free on all sides , but a tacit debate is initiated between the works of salvation , which serve the real order , and those ...
... salvation that reserves the return of lost inti- macy for the future and for the world beyond this one misses the essence of the return , which is not only that it can be subordinated to that which it is not , but that it can only be ...
... salvation . It merely had forms of mediation that were less pronounced and more pathetic than Christianity . But like Christianity it gave rise to a costly spiritual life . Mysticism and monasticism developed ; the arts remained in ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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