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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... create an information- society and global free market . Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and ... create a science of evil . He has given us a new way to understand how we create surplus evil - warfare , ethnic ...
... create an information- society and global free market . Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and ... create a science of evil . He has given us a new way to understand how we create surplus evil - warfare , ethnic ...
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... create a target for our own feelings even though those feelings are destruc- tive . We can establish our basic organismic footing with hate as well as by submission . In fact , hate enlivens us more , which is why we see more intense ...
... create a target for our own feelings even though those feelings are destruc- tive . We can establish our basic organismic footing with hate as well as by submission . In fact , hate enlivens us more , which is why we see more intense ...
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... create one's own rebirth in the " closest possible likeness , " which , as Rank says , is obviously to be found in one's own sex . In terms of our discussion we can see that this attempt represents the complete causa - sui project : to ...
... create one's own rebirth in the " closest possible likeness , " which , as Rank says , is obviously to be found in one's own sex . In terms of our discussion we can see that this attempt represents the complete causa - sui project : to ...
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