Theory of ReligionTheory 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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... Unleashing of Violence to the Outside A society's individuality , which the fusion of the festival dissolves , is defined first of all in terms of real works - of agrarian production - that integrate sacrifice into the world of things ...
... unleashing of violence . The sovereignty of good that is implied by the awakening and realized by the sleep of dualism is also a reduction to the order of things that leaves no opening except toward a return to violence . Dull - minded ...
... unleashing that overturns the order of things , but it deflects the violence onto itself and thus no longer serves that order : it ceases to be enslaved to it as things them- selves are . In this way it elevates the sovereign good ...
Contents
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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