Escape from EvilExamines men's efforts to escape from the fear of death by performing acts of human wickedness through socially-sanctioned institutions |
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Mumford ' s contribution of insight into all this was to call it a “ megamachine . ”
The amalgam of kingship with sacred power , human sacrifice , and military
organization unleashed a nightmare megamachine on the world — a nightmare ,
says ...
Mumford ' s contribution of insight into all this was to call it a “ megamachine . ”
The amalgam of kingship with sacred power , human sacrifice , and military
organization unleashed a nightmare megamachine on the world — a nightmare ,
says ...
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This is why the megamachine represents the major historical challenge facing
western man ; to see through it and get control of it is the focal problem of human
survival in our time . Thus Mumford ' s philosophy of the obscenity of history that ...
This is why the megamachine represents the major historical challenge facing
western man ; to see through it and get control of it is the focal problem of human
survival in our time . Thus Mumford ' s philosophy of the obscenity of history that ...
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... the megamachine , 97 - 100 Pharaoh , 53 – 54 brother sister marriage as mode
of preserving power , 152 as emergent tyranny of ancient world , 53 – 54 Plains
Indians : egalitarianism of , 44 police force of , 57 – 58 warfare of , 96 Pompeii ...
... the megamachine , 97 - 100 Pharaoh , 53 – 54 brother sister marriage as mode
of preserving power , 152 as emergent tyranny of ancient world , 53 – 54 Plains
Indians : egalitarianism of , 44 police force of , 57 – 58 warfare of , 96 Pompeii ...
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User Review - dono421846 - LibraryThingAnother example of a manuscript that the author, before dying, requested not be published. A companion text to his classic The Denial of Death, this work argues that what we call evil (a term that is ... Read full review
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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| Title | Escape from Evil |
| Authors | Ernest Becker, Becker, Henk |
| Publisher | Free Press, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 0029023009, 9780029023006 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Epistemology |
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