ABSTRACT
In this book we suggest that the figure of the trickster, as it was developed in comparative anthropology and mythology, offers a priceless, at once new and age-old approach to the problem of evil. Compared to the word ‘evil’, the word ‘trickster’, especially as a technical term of the social sciences, is much less known, and more recent. Still, the presence of the trickster is felt everywhere, in the entire cultural tradition of mankind.
