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The Denial of Death
Author: Ernest Becker
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ISBN: 9781788164269
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2020
Published By: Profile Books
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Published: April 2020
Published By: Profile Books
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Ernest Becker tackles our relationship to mortality and searches for alternative ways to live.Ernest Becker tackles our relationship to mortality and searches for alternative ways to live.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. 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.
The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.
In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.