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Escape from Evil Paperback - 1985

by Ernest Becker; Preface by Ernest Becker


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From 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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reason for overlooking the momentous place that ritual has had in the life of mankind. The fact is that primitive man imagined he could transfer life from one thing to another, that he could, for example, take the spirit-power that resided in the scalp on an enemy and, by proper dancing and chanties, transfer that life from its former owner to the new one.

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  • Title Escape from Evil
  • Author Ernest Becker; Preface by Ernest Becker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 188
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, New York
  • Date 1985-03-01
  • ISBN 9780029024508 / 0029024501
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Primitive societies, Philosophical anthropology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 75012059
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128

About the author

After receiving a PhD in cultural anthropology from Syracuse University, Dr. Ernest Becker (1924-1974) taught at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State College, and Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and a foundation that bears his name--The Ernest Becker Foundation.
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