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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... subordinated to it ( like- wise , the subject cannot be subordinated , in an immediate sense , to the element with which it shares ) . But the tool is subordinated to the man who uses it , who can modify it as he pleases , in view of a ...
... subordinated to the need for duration , to the violence of an unconditional consumption ; what is impor- tant is to leave a world of real things , whose reality derives from a long term operation and never resides in the moment a world ...
... subordinated , just as it subordinated the gods of mythology . In this way the intelligible world has the appearance of the divine . But its transcendence is of a different nature from the inconclusive transcendence of the divine of ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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