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 33
... one's own development , can feel that one has not achieved all one should have . One can be in a bind in relation to one's body , which is the guilt of anality : to feel bound and doomed by one's physical appendages and orifices . Man ...
... one's own development , can feel that one has not achieved all one should have . One can be in a bind in relation to one's body , which is the guilt of anality : to feel bound and doomed by one's physical appendages and orifices . Man ...
Page 81
... one's world . In this sense , money seems to have repre- sented a cosmological unification of visible and invisible powers— powers of the gods , of kings , of heroic victors in war - and the distillation of the booty of war . And at the ...
... one's world . In this sense , money seems to have repre- sented a cosmological unification of visible and invisible powers— powers of the gods , of kings , of heroic victors in war - and the distillation of the booty of war . And at the ...
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... one's own immortality , or that of one's group , by contrasting it with its absolute absence [ of immortality ] in one's death - tainted victim . " 44 Mao emerges as a hero - savior who has the particular skill of defying death and ...
... one's own immortality , or that of one's group , by contrasting it with its absolute absence [ of immortality ] in one's death - tainted victim . " 44 Mao emerges as a hero - savior who has the particular skill of defying death and ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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