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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... death was an important part of creation , and so he embodied death in order to control it . Modern man has long since abandoned the ritual renewal theory of nature , and reality for us is simply refusing to acknowledge that evil and ...
... death was an important part of creation , and so he embodied death in order to control it . Modern man has long since abandoned the ritual renewal theory of nature , and reality for us is simply refusing to acknowledge that evil and ...
Page 125
... death denial . In the Marxist view death is an ideology , as the title of an essay by Marcuse has it . This means that although death is a natural fear , this fear has always been used and exploited by the established powers in order to ...
... death denial . In the Marxist view death is an ideology , as the title of an essay by Marcuse has it . This means that although death is a natural fear , this fear has always been used and exploited by the established powers in order to ...
Page 178
... Death , in H. Feifel , ed . , The Meaning of Death ( New York : McGraw - Hill , 1965 ) , p . 75 , for a similar , powerful observation . 11. This is from Hubert and Mauss , Sacrifice , and Van der Leeuw , Religion , vol . 2 , p . 356 ...
... Death , in H. Feifel , ed . , The Meaning of Death ( New York : McGraw - Hill , 1965 ) , p . 75 , for a similar , powerful observation . 11. This is from Hubert and Mauss , Sacrifice , and Van der Leeuw , Religion , vol . 2 , p . 356 ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
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