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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... violence to the outside . As a matter of fact , external violence is antithetical to sacrifice or the festival , whose violence works havoc within . Only religion ensures a consumption that destroys the very substance of those whom it ...
... violence consid- ered to be irreducible can capture the interest of a blind consciousness ; and the interest is openly declared if the execration implies a complete opening to evil , with a view to a subsequent purification ; or evil ...
... violence of mediation . But the divinity intentionally invokes crime ; mediation is the joint accomplishment of violence and of the being that it rends . In reality the sacrifice of the moral divinity is never the unfathomable mystery ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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