|aThe symbolism of evil / |cPaul Ricoeur ; translated from the French by Emerson Buchanan
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|aBoston : |bBeacon Press, |c1969, c1967
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|a362 p ; |c21 cm
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|aBeacon paperback Ariadne ; |v18
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|a"An Ariadne book."
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|aTranslation of La symbolique du mal, the 2d pt. of Finitude et culpabilit`, published as v. 2 of the author's Philosophie de la volont`
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|aIncludes bibliographical references
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|aPhenomenology of "confession"--Defilement--Sin--Guilt--Recapitulation of the symbolism of evil in the concept of the servile will--The "myths" of the beginning and of the end--The symbolic function of myths--The drama of creation and the "ritual" vision of the world--The wicked god and the "tragic" vision of existence--The "Adamic" myth and the "eschatological" vision of history--The myth of the exiled soul and salvation through knowledge--The cycle of the myths--The symbol gives rise to thought