thanatical; status orgasticus; attribute with

[Jonathan Lighter]

1995 J.M.G. van der Dennen [
dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/jur/1995/j.m..../OW_C4.pdf]:
The only work approaching de Maistre's thanatical _status orgasticus_ is
perhaps Proudhon's _Le Guerre et La Paix_, in which war is attributed with a
sacred character.


JL
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