The Denial of Death
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Ernest Becker
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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Author
Ernest Becker
Pages
336
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2007-11-01
ISBN
141659034X 9781416590347
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"The topic of the book is fascinating and worth exploring. But wow, the writing is so unfocused and dull. There are chunks of this book where it’s truly off on another realm. Philosophy is hard enough to read but combining multiple schools of thought into the topic of death…one of the hardest books to get through ever. "
Sheldon Rapoza
"Profound, honest, uncomfortable, and in-depth analysis of the human psychology. This book was honestly a little too complex for me to follow at times, so this is going to my "read again" list. The author is very wise and precocious on is psychoanalysis of a human existence."
Ranjan Lamichhane
"This book changed my life years and years ago. "
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