The Denial of DeathSimon and Schuster, 1 nov. 2007 - 336 pages Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie—man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after its writing. |
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... experience can be combed over for lessons learned ; future encounters can be anticipated , even rehearsed . But such temporal flexibility also delivers a sobering realization : by imagining far enough into the future , we envisage a ...
... experience can be combed over for lessons learned ; future encounters can be anticipated , even rehearsed . But such temporal flexibility also delivers a sobering realization : by imagining far enough into the future , we envisage a ...
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... , however interminable by human experience , are but a blink of a cosmic eye . The process by which one or another orderly structure will 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 17 6/26/23 10:58 AM Foreword to the 2023 Edition xvii.
... , however interminable by human experience , are but a blink of a cosmic eye . The process by which one or another orderly structure will 4P_Becker_Denial of Death_LE.indd 17 6/26/23 10:58 AM Foreword to the 2023 Edition xvii.
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... experience these things . This appreciation , in tandem with the recognition that nothing is ever- lasting , led me to fully accept that there is no grand purpose , no grand design awaiting discovery . Instead , our quest to understand ...
... experience these things . This appreciation , in tandem with the recognition that nothing is ever- lasting , led me to fully accept that there is no grand purpose , no grand design awaiting discovery . Instead , our quest to understand ...
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... experience great wonder . And the fact that bags of particles governed by physical law can do all this fills me with a deep sense of gratitude . Gratitude for being a small if transient part of the human story . Gratitude , that is ...
... experience great wonder . And the fact that bags of particles governed by physical law can do all this fills me with a deep sense of gratitude . Gratitude for being a small if transient part of the human story . Gratitude , that is ...
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... experience, to form, to greater meaningfulness. One of the reasons, I believe, that knowledge is in a state of useless overproduction is that it is strewn all over the place, spoken in a thousand competitive voices. Its insignificant ...
... experience, to form, to greater meaningfulness. One of the reasons, I believe, that knowledge is in a state of useless overproduction is that it is strewn all over the place, spoken in a thousand competitive voices. Its insignificant ...
Table des matières
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Human Character as a Vital Lie | 47 |
THE FAILURES OF HEROISM | 125 |
Otto Rank and the Closure | 159 |
The Present Outcome of Psychoanalysis | 177 |
A General View of Mental Illness | 209 |
RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSION | 253 |
References | 285 |
Index | 307 |
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