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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Georges Bataille. Where This Book Is Situated The foundation of one's thought is the thought of another ; thought is like a brick cemented into a wall . It is a simu- lacrum of thought if , in his looking back on himself , the being who ...
... thought , with- out seeking its definitive state . A philosophy is a coherent sum or it is nothing , but it expresses the individual , not indissoluble mankind . It must therefore remain open to the developments that will fol- low , in ...
... thought will have . And authority is acquired in the course of games whose tradi- tional , somewhat arbitrary rules oblige the one who expresses himself to give his thought the idea of a flawless and definitive operation . This is an ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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