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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... separate positing of one element , remains confused : that element keeps all the attributes of a subject and an object at the same time . The transcendence of the tool and the creative faculty connected with its use are confusedly ...
... separate existence , has a meaning , unless a subsequent time is posited , in view of which it is constituted as an object . The object is defined as an operative power only if its duration is implicitly understood . If it is destroyed ...
... separate individual . If one describes the individual in the operation of sacrifice , he is defined by anguish . But if sac- rifice is distressing , the reason is that the individual takes part in it . The individual identifies with the ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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