“The Eyes of the Lord”

a rather specific social practice and its institutionalized modus operandi. Informers, accusers, internal spies, censors, secret agents and their like form. . . an effective and often unobtrusive web, that with constant vigilance and demonic effectiveness directs, controls and coerces the individual...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. VerfasserIn: Oppenheim, A. Leo
Medienart: Druck Aufsatz
In:Essays in Memory of E. A. Speiser
Jahr: 1968, Band: 88-1, Seiten: 173-180
KeiBi Identifikator:30:821
weitere Schlagwörter:Konferenzschrift
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:a rather specific social practice and its institutionalized modus operandi. Informers, accusers, internal spies, censors, secret agents and their like form. . . an effective and often unobtrusive web, that with constant vigilance and demonic effectiveness directs, controls and coerces the individual in his social setting. . . transferred to a supernatural level . . . they appear either as evil demons, as the swift messengers and servants or the “Eyes of the Lord”.