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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
...(more) 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.(less)
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This book provided a frame work to rip apart cultural rituals and understand the gems and trash within.
Ernest Becker creates a compelling and cohesive narrative on the history of physochology. He then adds sociology, politics and economics.
“What characterizes modern life is the failure of all traditional immortality ideologies to absorb and quicken man's hunger for self-perpetuation and heroism.” - Ernest Becker.
I see the understanding our need for ideology as beeing a huge need for the growth of consciousness.
Reading this book was like taking a magnifying glass to my disected body - and building a new framework for hope in the future of humanity.
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