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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... fact that the sublime , the beautiful , and the divine are inextricable from basic animal functions . In the head of the adoring male is the illusion that sublime beauty " is all head and wings , with no bottom to betray " it . In one ...
... fact that the sublime , the beautiful , and the divine are inextricable from basic animal functions . In the head of the adoring male is the illusion that sublime beauty " is all head and wings , with no bottom to betray " it . In one ...
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... fact of death and the justification of it . As one's whole life is a style or a scenario with which one tries to deny oblivion and to extend oneself beyond death in symbolic ways , one is often untouched by the fact of his death because ...
... fact of death and the justification of it . As one's whole life is a style or a scenario with which one tries to deny oblivion and to extend oneself beyond death in symbolic ways , one is often untouched by the fact of his death because ...
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... fact . Redl , who studied many different kinds of groups , found that domination by a strong personality occurred in some of them , but not all.20 But he did find that in all groups there was what he called a " central person " who held ...
... fact . Redl , who studied many different kinds of groups , found that domination by a strong personality occurred in some of them , but not all.20 But he did find that in all groups there was what he called a " central person " who held ...
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