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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... is the impossible . It takes courage and stubbornness not to go slack . Every- thing invites one to drop the substance for the shadow , to forsake the open and impersonal movement of thought for the 9 Where This Book Is Situated.
... takes its place next to those animals , those plants , those meteors , or those men that the object's transcendence , ascribed to them , withdraws from the con- tinuum . It becomes continuous with respect to the world * This last muddle ...
... takes part in it . The individual identifies with the victim in the sudden movement that restores it to immanence ( to inti- macy ) , but the assimilation that is linked to the return to immanence is nonetheless based on the fact that ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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