Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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... animal of a species . As we shall see , we grind up astronomically larger quantities of life , but it is in the same ... animal's being the object of a cult when this does not imply respect but is merely a procedure for causing the ...
... animal of a species . As we shall see , we grind up astronomically larger quantities of life , but it is in the same ... animal's being the object of a cult when this does not imply respect but is merely a procedure for causing the ...
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... animal life and handled them gently and reverently . Certainly this was often true , but we also know that primitives could be very casual and even cruel with animals . Hocart throws an interesting light on this by point- ing out that ...
... animal life and handled them gently and reverently . Certainly this was often true , but we also know that primitives could be very casual and even cruel with animals . Hocart throws an interesting light on this by point- ing out that ...
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... animals . But he himself was a peculiarly weak animal , and so he had to develop a special sensi- tivity to sources of power , and a wide latitude of sources of power for his own incorporation . This is one way to understand the greater ...
... animals . But he himself was a peculiarly weak animal , and so he had to develop a special sensi- tivity to sources of power , and a wide latitude of sources of power for his own incorporation . This is one way to understand the greater ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
Copyright | |
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