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Georges Bataille - Theory of Religion, Archeologia i antropologia, Georges Bataille
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Theory of
Religion
Georges Bataille
Translated
bY
Robert
HurleY
Z-ONE
T]OOKS
NEW
YORK
1989
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oot I
itselt'in
(true)
know'leclge,
into on
"object"
revectled
to d
t'rom
the objcct ttnd
"opposecl"
to it.
It isin onclb.r'- or betterstill,as
- "his"
Desire
that mtrn
i.s
Jormerl
an(l is ret'cdled
- to himselfand to othert - dt
an
I, as the I that is csscntiall.vdifferent
t'rom,
antl
racli-
call.r'opposed
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to, the non-|.'lltc
(hunton) I is the I of a
Desireor oJ
Desire.
ThevervhcingoJmon,
thc selJ-conscious
beinyl,there-
t'orc,
in'rplies
and
presupposes
Desire.Consequentl.v,
the
humttn reolit.r.cdnbe
lormed
and
mdintdineclonlv within
a biologicalre(1lit.t',
an animal hJe. Ilut, if animal Desire
lt is not the
suJt'icient
condition.By itself, this Desireconstitutesonlv
thc SentimentoJsell.
In contrast
to theknowledllethat kecp.sman in a pos-
sivcc1uietude,Desirecli.s-quiets
Printctl
in the Llnite
rl Staters
ol
i\mcrica
l)istribtrtctl
br' f
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Cambridqc,
N'lassachusctts''rntl
Lontlon'
Lnglantl
him
anclmove.shim to
oction. Ilorn
ol Desire,oction tcndsto satist'v'
ic'rtion
l)'rta
it, antl can
rlo so onl' b.v'thc "negation," lhe cle.struction,
[
-ibran
of Congrcss
Cat'rlouing-in-Pr'rbl
or ot \east
the tronst'ormotion,
o;fthe desiredobject:to .sotist'r'hun-
ger,
t'or
cxomple, the
Jood
must be cle.rtrovedor, in
(1n)'
cose,tronsJormcd.
Thus,oll oction is
"negdtin[1."
- AlcxanclrcKojdve
lntrocluctionto the Recttlingot'IIegel
R.rtaillc,
Gcorgcs'
r897-r962'
'l-hcon
of
rcligiort'
'li-.rnslation
o{: Tlrloric
dc la
rcligion'
13ibliograPhr':
P'
r.
I{elision.
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(alk' papcr)
IsllN
o-942l9t)-o9-4
(pbk':
'rlk'
p'rpcr)
"tubjcct"
dit't'erent
is the neces.sctn'
conditionof se\-consciousne.ts,
Contents
ll'here'l'his BookIs Situated
e
Introtluction
11
PARI ONE
I-TIE BASIC D.{TA
I Anintalitv
r t
Il I Iumonitv and thc Dcvclopncnt
of the
ProJaneWorkl
2r
III Sacrit'ica,
the Fcstival,ond
the Principles
of thc Sacrec!
World 43
TWO
REI IGION. WI'I HIN
I.HI I-IN,,II'I.SOF RLASON
I The tN[ilitar)'
Order 6 5
I I Dualism crnt!,l'lorolit,v
6 9
lll Mcdiation
rs
IV The RiscoJlndustr.v 8r
To Whom...
ro7
GeneralTablettnd ReJerences
L 1'7
Where
This
Book Is Situated
'l'hc
fbuntlationof'one'sthoughtisthe thoughtof anotlrcr;
thought is likc a l>rickccmcntc<linto a uall. It is a simu-
lacrum of thought il, in his krokingbatk on hirnst'Il',
of lrecrlonrcostshinr:hc <loc'sn'tst'r'tlrt'lastc
ground
anrltlrt' hcapsof <letritusto
uhich
a
setrsitivt'
r'an-
itv consigns
hinr u
ith his brick.
'fht'
u.ork clf thr: mason, u'ho asscmtrlcs,
is tlrc uork
that matters.Thus the adjoiningbricks,in a book, should
not be lt:ssvisiblcthan thc nov brick, uhich is thc book.
What is offeredthe readcr,in f-act,cannottrt'an clt'mcnt,
lrr-rtmust bc the cnsenrble
in u'hich it is inserterl:it is tht'
rrholc human
asserrblage
and etlifice,rvhichmust be,not
just
a pilc of scral>s,but r.rthcra srlf-consciousncss.
In a st'nst'thc
unlimitcclasscmblagc
is tlrc inrpossible.
It
takt-s
cc)uragc
ancl
stutrbornncss
not to go
slack.
llli'rr'-
thing invitcson('to <lrop
thc
substancc
firr tht' sha<lou,
to
thc
bcing u'hri tl.rinksscr-sa fl-ccbrick anrl nr>ttht' prict' tlris
scmlrlanc'c'
)RY'JFRFLICJION
tilrsakc
thc
opcn
antl
inipcrsonll
mrlvcmcrrt
of thought
for thc
isolated
opinion'
Of
tt"t"t
thc
isolatctl
opinion
is
also
the
shortest
mcans
of
rcvealing
rvhat
thc
asscmblagc
c.scntiallv
is
- thc
inrpossiblc.
Btrt
it has
this
dct'p
mean-
ing
onlv
i[ it
is t.tot
c:onscious
ot'thc
t'rct'
I'his
Srou'crlt'ssll('ss
Introduction
rlt'fincs
an
apcx
tlf pclssillilitr''
or at
tt[ thc
impossibilitv
opcns
tlonsciot'tsness
li'r it to
think'
In thisgatht'rin{
placc'
shcrc
vitllcucc
is rifc'
at
tht
bountlarv
of
that
rvhich
cscaPcs
c'ohcsion,
he
u'ho
ref'lccts
rvithin
cohcsion
rt-alizes
that
thcre
is
no lrll.tgt'r
anY
r(x)m
fcrr
hinl'
to all
that
ispossiblt-
This "theon' of rerligion"outlines lvhat a finished rv<rrk
rvoulcfbe: I have triccl to exprLrssa mobile
thought,
with-
out seckingits dcfinitive state.
A philosophvis a coherentsum or it is nothing,but it
exprcss('s
not in<lissolublcmankind.lt must
thcrefbre rcmain opcn to the der,clopmentsthat r.r'illfbl-
lorv,
in
human
thought . . .
rvhere
those
u.ho
think,
insofar
asthev
rejcct
tht'ir
othe'rness
(that
u'hich
thcv are
not)
are
alrearlvlostin
thc
universaloblir.ion.A
philosopht'
isnc-r,er
a hclr-rse;
it isa
construction
sitc.But itsincompletionisnot
that of scienc'c.Scit'nceclrarvsup a nrultitu<lco1'finishccl
parts
andonlf itslr'holc
prt'sents
cmptv spacL-s,
uhereasin
thc incomplcticlnis not
rcstrictedto the lacunaco{ thought;at evcrv
point,
ateach
point, thcre is the impossibilitvof thc final statc.
'l'his
condition of impossibilitvis
not
thc cxcuse
for
r0
11
l.^.,,
.rtlo.,''rt'ss
the inclivi<lual,
our striving for cohersivcncss,
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