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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... Tool The positing of the object , which is not given in animality , is in the human use of tools ; that is , if the tools as middle terms are adapted to the intended result - if their users perfect them . Insofar as tools are developed ...
... tool's use always has the same meaning as the tool's use : a utility is assigned to it in turn and so on . The stick digs the ground in order to ensure the growth of a plant ; the plant is cultivated in order to be eaten ; it is eaten ...
... tool and the manufactured object on the same plane , the reason being that the tool is first of all a manu- factured object and , conversely , a manufactured object is in a certain sense a tool . The only means of freeing the ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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