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BL
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652011
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| Main Entry
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Becker, Ernest.
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| Title & Author
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Escape from evil /\ Ernest Becker.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Free Press,, [1975]
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xix, 188 p. ;; 21 cm.
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| ISBN
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0029023009
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: 9780029023006
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: 0029024501
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: 9780029024508
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| Notes
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Companion vol.: The denial of death.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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An exploration of the natural history of evil.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Primitive societies.
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Attitude to Death.
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Fear.
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| LC Classification
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BD450.B394
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