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The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker

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The Denial of Death

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
Year
1997
ISBN-13
9780684832401
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
Mortality and deathPsychology and human behaviorExistential philosophy

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