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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... situation , the importance of which is fundamental . I will not speak of it continually , but will not be able to lose sight of it ; the very conclusion of my state- ments will return to this starting point : the situation is given when ...
... situation does contain a component of the human situation ; if need be , the animal can be regarded as a subject for which the rest of the world is an object , but it is never given the possibility of regarding itself in this way ...
... situations . The ani- mals which do not eat a fellow creature of the same species still do not have the ability to recognize it as such , so that a new situation , in which the normal behavior is not triggered , may suffice to remove an ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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