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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Ernest Becker. the freedom of thought , imagination , and the infinite reach of sym- bolism . The body represents determinism and boundness . The child gradually learns that his freedom as a unique being is dragged back by the body and ...
Ernest Becker. the freedom of thought , imagination , and the infinite reach of sym- bolism . The body represents determinism and boundness . The child gradually learns that his freedom as a unique being is dragged back by the body and ...
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... freedom , and that he is bound by a finite body , which limits that freedom . The attempt to ignore either aspect of man's situation , to repress possibility or to deny necessity , means that man will live a lie , fail to realize his ...
... freedom , and that he is bound by a finite body , which limits that freedom . The attempt to ignore either aspect of man's situation , to repress possibility or to deny necessity , means that man will live a lie , fail to realize his ...
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... freedom . This is Kierkegaard's mes- sage , the culmination of his whole argument about the dead - ends of character , the ideal of health , the school of anxiety , the nature of real possibility and freedom . One goes through it all to ...
... freedom . This is Kierkegaard's mes- sage , the culmination of his whole argument about the dead - ends of character , the ideal of health , the school of anxiety , the nature of real possibility and freedom . One goes through it all to ...
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