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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... cultural repression ( as I argued in a previous book ) .5 What men have done is to shift the fear of death onto the higher level of cultural perpetuity ; and this very triumph ushers in an ominous new problem . Since men must now hold ...
... cultural repression ( as I argued in a previous book ) .5 What men have done is to shift the fear of death onto the higher level of cultural perpetuity ; and this very triumph ushers in an ominous new problem . Since men must now hold ...
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... cultural system of denial lost its power . All of which supports those who hold that death anxiety always lingers under the surface and is never surely and smoothly absorbed in the cultural hero system . How can the body ever be surely ...
... cultural system of denial lost its power . All of which supports those who hold that death anxiety always lingers under the surface and is never surely and smoothly absorbed in the cultural hero system . How can the body ever be surely ...
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... cultural continuation of the causa sui project in the child . This is how it has always been understood , only now we add that the character of this causa sui project is definite and in- flexible : the securing of immortality ( in ...
... cultural continuation of the causa sui project in the child . This is how it has always been understood , only now we add that the character of this causa sui project is definite and in- flexible : the securing of immortality ( in ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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