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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... things were animated by in- visible forces , that the sun's heat worked at a distance and per- vaded the things of the earth , that seeds germinated out of the invisible as did children , etc. All he wanted to do , with the tech- nique ...
... things were animated by in- visible forces , that the sun's heat worked at a distance and per- vaded the things of the earth , that seeds germinated out of the invisible as did children , etc. All he wanted to do , with the tech- nique ...
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... things more than we do . In order to recapture this way of looking at nature , we moderns usually have to experience ... things that gave him the power to endure , those things that incorporated the sun's energy and that gave warmth and ...
... things more than we do . In order to recapture this way of looking at nature , we moderns usually have to experience ... things that gave him the power to endure , those things that incorporated the sun's energy and that gave warmth and ...
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... things and not be able to move in relation to it . Man experiences this uniquely as a feeling of the crushing awesomeness of things and his helplessness in the face of them . This real guilt partly explains man's willing subordinacy to ...
... things and not be able to move in relation to it . Man experiences this uniquely as a feeling of the crushing awesomeness of things and his helplessness in the face of them . This real guilt partly explains man's willing subordinacy to ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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