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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Page 101
... motive of society , as Brown said , is the symbolic expiation of guilt , which we saw as a very complex phenomenon grounded in the truth of the human condition . Guilt is one of the serious motives of man , not to be tossed off as ...
... motive of society , as Brown said , is the symbolic expiation of guilt , which we saw as a very complex phenomenon grounded in the truth of the human condition . Guilt is one of the serious motives of man , not to be tossed off as ...
Page 137
... motives and guilt , but sometimes it was more simple and direct : it could be a matter of sheer physical appetite . Some tribes loved the taste of human flesh and incor- porated captive men , women , and children with joy and gusto ...
... motives and guilt , but sometimes it was more simple and direct : it could be a matter of sheer physical appetite . Some tribes loved the taste of human flesh and incor- porated captive men , women , and children with joy and gusto ...
Page 144
... motives of men , precisely because these motives become open and amenable to clear analysis , to a tracing out of their total structure in the full field of human affairs as those affairs reflect the torments of man's inner life , his ...
... motives of men , precisely because these motives become open and amenable to clear analysis , to a tracing out of their total structure in the full field of human affairs as those affairs reflect the torments of man's inner life , his ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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