Denial of Death - Softcover

Becker, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0029023106 ISBN 13: 9780029023105

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1976

Synopsis

Drawing from religion and the human sciences, particularly psychology after Freud, the author attempts to demonstrate that the fear of death is man's central concern

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Review:

It puts together what others have torn to pieces and rendered useless. It is one of those rare masterpieces that will stimulate your thoughts, your intellectual curiosity, and last but not least, your soul. --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

A brave work of electrifying intelligence and passion, optimistic and revolutionary, destined to endure. --New York Times Book Review

Meditating on death and its influence on our culture... that the fear of death is the single motivating fact of human endeavour and that all art and philosophy come from trying to deal with obsolescence. --The Catholic Herald

About the Author:

Ernest Becker taught at Simon Fraser University in Canada, his work drew on that of Kierkegaard, Freud, Wilhelm Reich and Otto Rank. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for The Denial of Death (two months after his death from cancer).

About this edition

• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0029023106
• ISBN 13: 9780029023105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336