Escape from evil
By: Ernest Becker. --
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780029023006; 9780029024508
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology; Primitive societies
Description: An exploration of the natural history of evil.
Notes: Companion vol.: The denial of death.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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