Animism and magic: E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazier -- Religion and personality: Sigmund Freud -- Society as sacred: Emile Durkheim -- Religion as alienation: Karl Marx -- Reality of the sacred: Mircea ...

He was a universal genius." Conrad's The Secret Agent, a satire about bomb-wielding anarchists who declare war on science (and whose intentional irony Kaczynski may have missed), presages the ...