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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... feel that practically everyone is expendable ex- cept ourselves . We should feel prepared , as Emerson once put it , to recreate the whole world out of ourselves even if no one else existed . The thought frightens us ; we don't know how ...
... feel that practically everyone is expendable ex- cept ourselves . We should feel prepared , as Emerson once put it , to recreate the whole world out of ourselves even if no one else existed . The thought frightens us ; we don't know how ...
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... feel inferior , weak , worthless , evil , shameful . We protect ourselves and our ideal image of ourselves by repression and similar de- fenses , which are essentially techniques by which we avoid becoming conscious of unpleasant or ...
... feel inferior , weak , worthless , evil , shameful . We protect ourselves and our ideal image of ourselves by repression and similar de- fenses , which are essentially techniques by which we avoid becoming conscious of unpleasant or ...
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... feel good ' about themselves . " They push themselves to maximize this feeling . As philosophers have long noted ... feel " right . ” But on top of this special burden nature has arranged that it is impossible for man to feel “ right ...
... feel good ' about themselves . " They push themselves to maximize this feeling . As philosophers have long noted ... feel " right . ” But on top of this special burden nature has arranged that it is impossible for man to feel “ right ...
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