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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... objects into money , 15 Or , we might say , into a single immortality symbol , a ready way of relating the increase of oneself to all the important objects and events of one's world . In this sense , money seems to have repre- sented a ...
... objects into money , 15 Or , we might say , into a single immortality symbol , a ready way of relating the increase of oneself to all the important objects and events of one's world . In this sense , money seems to have repre- sented a ...
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... objects - human objects most of the time ? In other words , man must take out his personal problems on a transference object in one way or another ; as psychiatrists now put it , man's whole life is a series of " games " enmeshing ...
... objects - human objects most of the time ? In other words , man must take out his personal problems on a transference object in one way or another ; as psychiatrists now put it , man's whole life is a series of " games " enmeshing ...
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... object , then at least we have some scientific purchase on the problem . A science of man in society is possible even while admitting the most destructive motives of men , precisely because these motives become open and amenable to ...
... object , then at least we have some scientific purchase on the problem . A science of man in society is possible even while admitting the most destructive motives of men , precisely because these motives become open and amenable to ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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