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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... heroic , timeless , and supremely meaningful . The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up . They don't believe it is empirically true to the ...
... heroic , timeless , and supremely meaningful . The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up . They don't believe it is empirically true to the ...
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... heroic gift to the society in which you live , and you give the gift that society specifies in advance . If you are an artist you fashion a peculiarly personal gift , the justification of your own heroic identity , which means that it ...
... heroic gift to the society in which you live , and you give the gift that society specifies in advance . If you are an artist you fashion a peculiarly personal gift , the justification of your own heroic identity , which means that it ...
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... heroic transcendence of his fate ? Then , failure for such an animal is failure to achieve heroic transcendence . As Adler put it so succinctly in the epigraph we have borrowed for this part of the book , mental illness is a way of ...
... heroic transcendence of his fate ? Then , failure for such an animal is failure to achieve heroic transcendence . As Adler put it so succinctly in the epigraph we have borrowed for this part of the book , mental illness is a way of ...
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