The Snarling CitizenEhrenreich, Barbara
ISBN: 9780805050776
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN 10: 0805050779 / 0-8050-5077-9ISBN 13: 9780805050776
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War: Synopsis
In "Blood Rites", Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mysteries of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking?
Review:"Ehrenreich's work is convincing, at least to the general reader."
Kirkus, 03/15/1997
Review:"[Ehrenrich] has accomplished a very rare feat of writing--a philosophical page turner. She has tackled one of the big questions and made us re-examine what it means to be human."
Tom Gallagher, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, 04/04/1997
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Book Description: 1997. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. What draws our species to war & even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Takes us on a journey from prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the human sacrifices of pre-colonial Central Amer. to the carnage & holocaust of 20th-cent. "total war." Discovers the wellspring in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experience of predation by stronger carnivores. There is the first form of socially sanctioned violence -- & the spiritual antecedent of war. Traces war’s evolution from the sacred undertaking of a privileged warrior caste to the rite of nationalism & shows the persistence of ancient fears in the modern rituals of war. "Original & illuminating." "Exceptionally wide-ranging." This is a remainder book which is new and never used. It may have a remainder mark on the edge of the pages. 292pages. Printed in English. Bookseller Inventory # 0-7567-5438-0 [Bookseller & Payment Information] [More Books from this Seller] [Ask Bookseller a Question] |
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