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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... become more and more anxious to disclaim relationship with animals , especially when worship became associated with respect ... becomes worship ; man is loath to abase himself be- fore an animal.27 Hocart attributes this to " the growing ...
... become more and more anxious to disclaim relationship with animals , especially when worship became associated with respect ... becomes worship ; man is loath to abase himself be- fore an animal.27 Hocart attributes this to " the growing ...
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... becomes the focus of the peculiarly human passion play of the victory over death . To go back to Rousseau for a moment , we can now see how fanciful the idea is that in the " state of nature " man is free and only becomes unfree later ...
... becomes the focus of the peculiarly human passion play of the victory over death . To go back to Rousseau for a moment , we can now see how fanciful the idea is that in the " state of nature " man is free and only becomes unfree later ...
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... becomes the revelation of the lie . The comparative study of society becomes the assessment of how high are the costs of this lie . Or , looked at from another way , cultures are fundamentally and basically styles of heroic death denial ...
... becomes the revelation of the lie . The comparative study of society becomes the assessment of how high are the costs of this lie . Or , looked at from another way , cultures are fundamentally and basically styles of heroic death denial ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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