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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... consciousness turns away from the obscure intimacy of consciousness itself . Religion , whose essence is the search for lost intimacy , comes down to the effort of clear consciousness which wants to be a com- plete self - consciousness ...
... Consciousness of Things , or , Science The condition for achieving clear self - consciousness is sci- ence , which is the attainment of a clear consciousness of the real order ( i.e. , of the world of objects ) . Science is closely tied ...
... oneself lose time is what justifies the pejorative value of the word futile . This introduces , as a basis for clear self - consciousness , a consideration of the objects that are dissolved and destroyed in the intimate moment . It is a ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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