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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... death we are once more living psychologically beyond our means , and must reform and give truth its due ? Would it not be better to give death the place in actuality and in our thoughts which properly belongs to it , and to yield a ...
... death we are once more living psychologically beyond our means , and must reform and give truth its due ? Would it not be better to give death the place in actuality and in our thoughts which properly belongs to it , and to yield a ...
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... death as greatly heightened by the child's experiences with his parents , by their hostile denial of his life impulses , and , more generally , by the antagonism of society to human freedom and self - expansiveness.1 As we will see ...
... death as greatly heightened by the child's experiences with his parents , by their hostile denial of his life impulses , and , more generally , by the antagonism of society to human freedom and self - expansiveness.1 As we will see ...
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... Death ( New York : Appleton , 1900 ) . 4. Hall , " Thanatophobia , " p . 562 . 5. Cf. , Alan Harrington , The Immortalist ( New York : Random House , 1969 ) , p . 82 . 6. See Jacques Choron's excellent study : Death and Western Thought ...
... Death ( New York : Appleton , 1900 ) . 4. Hall , " Thanatophobia , " p . 562 . 5. Cf. , Alan Harrington , The Immortalist ( New York : Random House , 1969 ) , p . 82 . 6. See Jacques Choron's excellent study : Death and Western Thought ...
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