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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... keep things in balance one had to give in return - to one another and , by offerings , to the spirits . The gods existed in order to receive gifts . This helps us understand why primitive society seems so " masochistic " to us in its ...
... keep things in balance one had to give in return - to one another and , by offerings , to the spirits . The gods existed in order to receive gifts . This helps us understand why primitive society seems so " masochistic " to us in its ...
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... keep the cycle of power moving from the invisible to the visible world . When man gives , " the stream of life continues to flow , " as Van der Leeuw so beautifully summed it up in his classic study of primitive ideas . In order to ...
... keep the cycle of power moving from the invisible to the visible world . When man gives , " the stream of life continues to flow , " as Van der Leeuw so beautifully summed it up in his classic study of primitive ideas . In order to ...
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... keep its authority ; the attack on the fatality of biology , the accidents of heredity , was put into the service of the ideology of the family , and it reinforced patriarchy . We still see this in Roman Catholic countries today . In ...
... keep its authority ; the attack on the fatality of biology , the accidents of heredity , was put into the service of the ideology of the family , and it reinforced patriarchy . We still see this in Roman Catholic countries today . In ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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