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The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. [1]
Dec 31, 2014 · The Denial Of Death. by. Ernest Becker. Publication date. 1973-12-31. Topics. Death, Philosophy, Psychology. Collection. opensource.
May 8, 1997 · 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.
Dec 31, 1973 · The Denial of Death. Ernest Becker, Sam Keen (Foreword) 4.08. 13,499 ratings1,454 reviews. 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.
Dec 28, 2023 · Fifty years on, Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death” remains an essential, surprisingly upbeat guide to our final act on Earth.
Nov 1, 2007 · 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.
The prospect of death, Dr. Johnson said, wonderfully concentrates the mind. The main thesis of this book is that it does much more than that: the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity—activity de signed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying
