The Denial of DeathFree Press, 8 mai 1997 - 352 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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... animal who has no defense against full perception of the external world , an animal completely open to experience . Not only in front of his nose , in his umwelt , but in many other umwelten . He can relate not only to animals in his ...
... animal who has no defense against full perception of the external world , an animal completely open to experience . Not only in front of his nose , in his umwelt , but in many other umwelten . He can relate not only to animals in his ...
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... animal . ] Since he is a synthesis he can be in dread . . . man himself produces dread . " Man's anxiety is a function of his sheer ambiguity and of his com- plete powerlessness to overcome that ambiguity , to be straightfor- wardly an ...
... animal . ] Since he is a synthesis he can be in dread . . . man himself produces dread . " Man's anxiety is a function of his sheer ambiguity and of his com- plete powerlessness to overcome that ambiguity , to be straightfor- wardly an ...
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... animal plenitude . We might say with Santayana that the healthy " Animal Faith " is denied him , which is why he has to develop complex ideational systems of thought . We know today that the cultural sense of space , time , and ...
... animal plenitude . We might say with Santayana that the healthy " Animal Faith " is denied him , which is why he has to develop complex ideational systems of thought . We know today that the cultural sense of space , time , and ...
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