Bibliograph

Escape from evil, Ernest Becker

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Escape from evil, Ernest Becker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Escape from evil

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1531747

Responsibility statement

Ernest Becker

Summary

An exploration of the natural history of evil

Table Of Contents

Introduction. The human condition: between appetite and ingenuity -- The primitive world: ritual as practical technics -- The primitive world: economics as expiation and power -- The origin of inequality -- The evolution of inequality -- The new historical forms of immortality power -- Money: the new universal immortality ideology -- The basic dynamic of human evil -- The nature of social evil -- Social theory: the merger of Marx and Freud -- Retrospect and conclusion: What is the heroic society?

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