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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... tion and the sacred anguish of the individual . Because man is not squarely within that order , but only partakes of it through a thing that is threatened in its nature ( in the projects that constitute it ) , intimacy , in the ...
... tion of the divinity - is the third way in which the divine is wrenched away from the order of things . But this admir- able refusal makes one think of the fool who jumped into the river to get out of the rain . No doubt the rejection ...
... tion of Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit . The ideas that I have developed here are substantially present in it . The correspondences between the Hegelian analysis and this " theory of religion " would still need to be specified ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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