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 35
... stand them unless it expiates them in some way . Each person cannot stand his own emergence and the many ways in which his organism is dumbly baffled from within and transcended from without . Each person would literally be ... pulled ...
... stand them unless it expiates them in some way . Each person cannot stand his own emergence and the many ways in which his organism is dumbly baffled from within and transcended from without . Each person would literally be ... pulled ...
Page 59
... stand out as tall as possible as a big man , a hero . At the same time , the grander was the expiation before the community and the gods to whom the goods were offered . Both the individual urge to maximum self - feeling and the ...
... stand out as tall as possible as a big man , a hero . At the same time , the grander was the expiation before the community and the gods to whom the goods were offered . Both the individual urge to maximum self - feeling and the ...
Page 148
... stand the inner dynamics of this long history of self - abasement : men need transference in order to be able to stand life . Man im- munizes himself against terror by controlling his fascination , by localizing it and developing ...
... stand the inner dynamics of this long history of self - abasement : men need transference in order to be able to stand life . Man im- munizes himself against terror by controlling his fascination , by localizing it and developing ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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