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Escape from evil / Ernest Becker.
Pennsylvania Hospital Library - IPH Collection BD 450 B395e 1975
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Ernest.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Primitive societies.
- Attitude to Death.
- Fear.
- Medical Subjects:
- Attitude to Death.
- Fear.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 188 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, [1975]
- Summary:
- An exploration of the natural history of evil.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Companion vol.: The denial of death.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. notes on back flyleaf.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Becker, Ernest. Escape from evil.
- ISBN:
- 0029023009
- 9780029023006
- 0029024501
- 9780029024508
- OCLC:
- 1531747
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