If society feels less rational lately, it may be. As intuition takes over from logic, communication gets faster, more ...

Drama is possible because life is alienated from man . It is an alienated form of ldquo;playing rdquo; the essence of life alienated from man .

Susanne K Langer understood the indispensable power of metaphors, which allow us to say new things with old words ...

Ritual sacrifice was often replaced with symbolic offerings (e.g., grain ... their deaths imbued with meaning far beyond the battlefield. War mirrors the logic of ancient sacrifices by converting ...

When amplified by media, propaganda, or extreme social narratives, these symbols can become Amplified Symbolic Releasers (ASRs), evoking responses that surpass typical religious devotion and move ...