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Ernest Becker

The Denial of Death

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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, [i]The Denial of Death[/i] 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 more than twenty years after its writing.
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450 printed pages
Publication year
2014
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  • Migalahas quoted4 years ago
    the routine activity for organisms is “tearing others apart with teeth of all types—biting, grinding flesh, plant stalks, bones between molars, pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight, incorporating its essence into one’s own organization, and then excreting with foul stench and gasses the residue.”
  • Migalahas quoted4 years ago
    Since the main task of human life is to become heroic and transcend death, every culture must provide its members with an intricate symbolic system that is covertly religious. This means that ideological conflicts between cultures are essentially battles between immortality projects, holy wars.
  • Migalahas quoted4 years ago
    We repress our bodies to purchase a soul that time cannot destroy; we sacrifice pleasure to buy immortality; we encapsulate ourselves to avoid death. And life escapes us while we huddle within the defended fortress of character.

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