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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... human destiny , and the fragile and ephemeral animal called man blew himself up to super- human size by making himself the center of things . Campsites and buildings were all laid out according to some kind of astronomical plan which ...
... human destiny , and the fragile and ephemeral animal called man blew himself up to super- human size by making himself the center of things . Campsites and buildings were all laid out according to some kind of astronomical plan which ...
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... human nature that went along so willingly with the process . The answer to this question seems to me remarkably straight- forward . I have said that primitive man recognized differences in talent and merit and already deferred to them ...
... human nature that went along so willingly with the process . The answer to this question seems to me remarkably straight- forward . I have said that primitive man recognized differences in talent and merit and already deferred to them ...
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... human being to take shape.10 The hope of the Enlighten- ment in its full development is represented by Fromm : to show clinically what prevents self - reliant men . This has been the burden of all of Fromm's work : to argue for the ...
... human being to take shape.10 The hope of the Enlighten- ment in its full development is represented by Fromm : to show clinically what prevents self - reliant men . This has been the burden of all of Fromm's work : to argue for the ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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