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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... kind " —that is , that man everywhere , no matter how exotic a particular culture , is basically standard vintage Homo sapiens , interchangeable in his nature and motives with any other human being . This is what the whole movement to ...
... kind " —that is , that man everywhere , no matter how exotic a particular culture , is basically standard vintage Homo sapiens , interchangeable in his nature and motives with any other human being . This is what the whole movement to ...
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... kind of world that Lévi - Strauss set out to find in the Amazon a couple of centuries later and for which he wrote the same kind of epitaph as the earlier observers had : A World on the Wane.2 Nobody was very happy with the way history ...
... kind of world that Lévi - Strauss set out to find in the Amazon a couple of centuries later and for which he wrote the same kind of epitaph as the earlier observers had : A World on the Wane.2 Nobody was very happy with the way history ...
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... kind of mystical participation with animals and nature , a participation for the purposes of the control and renewal of life . The individual got a sense of organismic durability by identifying with the fund of ancestral spirits . What ...
... kind of mystical participation with animals and nature , a participation for the purposes of the control and renewal of life . The individual got a sense of organismic durability by identifying with the fund of ancestral spirits . What ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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