ABSTRACT
A fine critical sense, broad multi-cultural experience, imaginative style and moral courage – this is a happy constellation of virtues to find in any writer. Its presence comes as close as anything can to guaranteeing a very good book. And Peter Berger’s Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change (Basic Books) is a very good book, although several flaws keep it from achieving its promise of greatness. Let us now, however, focus on its merits.
