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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... whole presents empty spaces , whereas in our striving for cohesiveness , the incompletion is not restricted to the lacunae of thought ; at every point , at each point , there is the impossibility of the final state . This condition of ...
... whole liv- ing religious world ( salient in these synthetic forms that abandon the narrowness of a tradition ) was not given so long as the archaic manifestations of religious feeling appeared to us independently of their meaning , like ...
... whole and only insofar as the whole has been polished by these reductions can it easily reveal to others the contents of their own thought . I would like to help my fellow beings get used to the idea of an open movement of reflection ...
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Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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