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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... thing a roast , a stew .... In any case , the human atti- tude toward the body is formidably complex . Insofar as he is ... thinghood . In theory the body is a strictly subordinate element , which is of no con- sequence for itself – a ...
... thinghood . The basic opposition between the divine and the thing , between divine intimacy and the world of the operation , emerges in the negation of the value of works – in the affirmation of a complete absence of relations between ...
... thing , is the necessary condition for the conscious and fully developed posing of the problem of man's reduction to thinghood . Only in a world where the thing has reduced everything , where what was once opposed to it reveals the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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