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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... individual soul as well . This is the meaning of the " rites of passage " rituals which took place at birth , puberty , marriage , and death : by means of symbolically dying and being reborn via ritual the individual was elevated to new ...
... individual soul as well . This is the meaning of the " rites of passage " rituals which took place at birth , puberty , marriage , and death : by means of symbolically dying and being reborn via ritual the individual was elevated to new ...
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... individual person , no matter who he was ; it was present in each culture , no matter how varied its beliefs might seem , or how much mankind itself seemed to change from epoch to epoch . Beliefs were not fixed and final realities ...
... individual person , no matter who he was ; it was present in each culture , no matter how varied its beliefs might seem , or how much mankind itself seemed to change from epoch to epoch . Beliefs were not fixed and final realities ...
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Ernest Becker. individual and with each society ; people learn different ways of feeling warm self - value . I myself have ... individual and the society ) . Along with this we have to make an important addition to Fromm's approach to ...
Ernest Becker. individual and with each society ; people learn different ways of feeling warm self - value . I myself have ... individual and the society ) . Along with this we have to make an important addition to Fromm's approach to ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
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