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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... whole movement to rehabilitate the primi- tive - from Hocart to Lévi - Strauss — has been about : to show that he is basically no different from ourselves and certainly not inferior mentally or emotionally . Well , having agreed that ...
... whole movement to rehabilitate the primi- tive - from Hocart to Lévi - Strauss — has been about : to show that he is basically no different from ourselves and certainly not inferior mentally or emotionally . Well , having agreed that ...
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... whole of the king's realm and the whole life of his subjects . " 11 After all , if you are going to be supreme regulator of the world , it is only logical that you should gradually encompass the whole world . If your invisible mechanics ...
... whole of the king's realm and the whole life of his subjects . " 11 After all , if you are going to be supreme regulator of the world , it is only logical that you should gradually encompass the whole world . If your invisible mechanics ...
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... whole process ; he seems to gloss over the irrational dynamics of history even while talking about them . My point is , I think , that his thesis is still too Marxian and unpsychological ; and this has to be remedied . The clue to my ...
... whole process ; he seems to gloss over the irrational dynamics of history even while talking about them . My point is , I think , that his thesis is still too Marxian and unpsychological ; and this has to be remedied . The clue to my ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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