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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... ideological disputes . Each person nourishes his immortality in the ideology of self - perpetuation to which he gives his allegiance ; this gives his life the only abiding significance it can have . No wonder men go into a rage over ...
... ideological disputes . Each person nourishes his immortality in the ideology of self - perpetuation to which he gives his allegiance ; this gives his life the only abiding significance it can have . No wonder men go into a rage over ...
Page 72
... ideology of modern Jeffersonian democracy . But alas it has been our sad experience that the new scientific Faustian man too has failed - in two resounding ways , just as Rank understood . These two ways almost all by themselves sum up ...
... ideology of modern Jeffersonian democracy . But alas it has been our sad experience that the new scientific Faustian man too has failed - in two resounding ways , just as Rank understood . These two ways almost all by themselves sum up ...
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... ideology " which is gradually trying to supplant religious and moral ideology , " but " is only partially qualified to do this , because it is a preponder- antly negative and disintegrating ideology . " In other words , that psychology ...
... ideology " which is gradually trying to supplant religious and moral ideology , " but " is only partially qualified to do this , because it is a preponder- antly negative and disintegrating ideology . " In other words , that psychology ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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