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?