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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... precisely what we have called " the lie of character , " and Kierkegaard calls it the same thing : It is easy to see that shut - upness eo ipso signifies a lie , or , if you prefer , untruth . But untruth is precisely unfreedom ... the ...
... precisely what we have called " the lie of character , " and Kierkegaard calls it the same thing : It is easy to see that shut - upness eo ipso signifies a lie , or , if you prefer , untruth . But untruth is precisely unfreedom ... the ...
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... precisely because it separates the per- son out of comfortable " beyonds . " It takes a strength and courage the average man doesn't have and couldn't even understand - as Jung so well points out.28 The most terrifying burden of the ...
... precisely because it separates the per- son out of comfortable " beyonds . " It takes a strength and courage the average man doesn't have and couldn't even understand - as Jung so well points out.28 The most terrifying burden of the ...
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... precisely the advance of specialization , the impossibility of making safe general statements , which has led to a general imbecility . What I would like to do in these few pages is to run the risk of simple - mindedness in order to ...
... precisely the advance of specialization , the impossibility of making safe general statements , which has led to a general imbecility . What I would like to do in these few pages is to run the risk of simple - mindedness in order to ...
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