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The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker

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#570 of 3,809 books · #20 in General

Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1974).

The Denial of Death won 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. 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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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-13
9780684832401
Topics
Mortality and deathPsychology and human behaviorExistential philosophy

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