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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... symbolic.1 As we shall see in Chapter Five it was Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into ... symbolic identity that brings him sharply out of nature . He is a symbolic self , a creature with a name , a life ...
... symbolic.1 As we shall see in Chapter Five it was Kierkegaard who forcefully introduced the existential paradox into ... symbolic identity that brings him sharply out of nature . He is a symbolic self , a creature with a name , a life ...
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... symbolic self , that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things , and a body that is worth about 98 ¢ . How to reconcile the two ? In order to understand the weight of the dualism of the human condition , we have to ...
... symbolic self , that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things , and a body that is worth about 98 ¢ . How to reconcile the two ? In order to understand the weight of the dualism of the human condition , we have to ...
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... symbolic self . It reflects the attempt to exaggerate one half of the human dualism at the expense of the other . In this sense , what we call schizo- phrenia is an attempt by the symbolic self to deny the limitations of the finite body ...
... symbolic self . It reflects the attempt to exaggerate one half of the human dualism at the expense of the other . In this sense , what we call schizo- phrenia is an attempt by the symbolic self to deny the limitations of the finite body ...
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