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Ernest Becker's Books
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Birth and Death of MeaningUses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.Read More
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The Denial of DeathWinner 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...Read More
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Escape from Evil“A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin“An urgent...Read More
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Atlantic Monthly, May 4, 2012
...started looking outside our field for answers, and we found them in a 1973 book by cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker , called The Denial of Death . We found his dazzling interdisciplinary synthesis of ideas terrifying, compelling, and able to answer...
Globe and Mail, April 6, 2012
...for wheat (Much Depends Upon Dinner), rendering a commonplace subject immediately spellbinding. Death, certainly, is commonplace enough, though Ernest Becker revealed the scope of our denial of this irrefutable fact of life in his groundbreaking The...
Globe and Mail, April 6, 2012
...for wheat (Much Depends Upon Dinner), rendering a commonplace subject immediately spellbinding. Death, certainly, is commonplace enough, though Ernest Becker revealed the scope of our denial of this irrefutable fact of life in his groundbreaking The...
Asian Journal, March 23, 2012
...heart palpitations, sweating and shortness of breath. It also includes chest pain, nausea, dizziness and trembling. The anthropologist, Ernest Becker's 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning work of nonfiction The Denial of Death, teaches that all humans try to...
Psychiatric Times, December 8, 2011
...out one more classic, but I think I’ll wait awhile before I peruse it again. That is Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death (The Free Press, 1973), also released and read during my psychiatric residency. Not to be superstitious or anything that would be...
Washington Post, June 25, 2011
...no particular order *Meditations, Marcus Aurelius *Macbeth, William Shakespeare *The Invisible Man, Ralph Emerson *The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker *The Imitation of Christ, Thomas A. Kempis *War Chief of the Seminoles, May McNeer *Joseph, Chief of the...
INDY, June 9, 2011
...the past. To deny the present is, by extension, to deny ourselves and our own existence. Or, as Ernest Becker would be sure to point out, it's a way to deny our own mortality. Becker won the Pulitzer in 1974 for The Denial of Death, a book that...
Missoulian, February 14, 2012
...place to research and find sample documents and even printable versions that can be personalized for you. As Ernest Becker said, "The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity -...
KLAS-TV, February 8, 2012
...School, 3465 Englestad St., North Las Vegas 89032 Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 5 - 8 p.m. at Ernest Becker Middle School, 9151 Pinewood Dr., Las Vegas 89134 Thursday, Feb. 16 from 5 - 8 p.m. at Bob Miller Middle School, 2400 Cozy Hill Circle, Henderson 89052...
Washington Examiner, January 24, 2012
...entirely empty, either. Faced with the insignificance of their own lives, people sometimes seek what the social anthropologist Ernest Becker called an "immortality project," a way to prove their worth by sacrificing their lives. From the moment they are...
Salon, January 4, 2012
...as social death: “Long-term unemployment affects many facets of a person’s life besides their income. According to Ernest Becker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, losing our role in our culture is a kind of social death (1973.)...
The Answer Sheet, June 25, 2011
...Meditations , Marcus Aurelius * Macbeth , William Shakespeare * The Invisible Man , Ralph Emerson * The Denial of Death , Ernest Becker * The Imitation of Christ , Thomas A. Kempis * War Chief of the Seminoles , May McNeer * Joseph, Chief of the Nez...
Independent Weekly, June 8, 2011
...the past. To deny the present is, by extension, to deny ourselves and our own existence. Or, as Ernest Becker would be sure to point out, it's a way to deny our own mortality. Becker won the Pulitzer in 1974 for The Denial of Death , a book that...
Independent Weekly, June 8, 2011
...the past. To deny the present is, by extension, to deny ourselves and our own existence. Or, as Ernest Becker would be sure to point out, it's a way to deny our own mortality. Becker won the Pulitzer in 1974 for The Denial of Death , a book that...
