What is religion for Bataille? Most fundamental to his thought is his theory of world economics, of the play and movement of energy in its excesses and productions. What is most valuable or might be said to be his morality? I have been exploring a few of his writings for these answers, particularly wanting to [...]
Tags: Bataille, Consciousness, Immanence, morality, Object, paradox, Religion
As I find the time over the next few days, I will be posting a summary of and engagement with Bataille’s Theory of Religion. I discovered this text during an independent study of theories about desire in the 20th century [note: same one Matt's been posting such delicious little essays because of.] — I read The [...]
Tags: Desire, duration, human consciousness, Immanence, intellectual imagination, philosopher, Self-Consciousness, theologian, theory of religion, transcendence
