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The Denial of Death
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Becker, Ernest
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Todd, Raymond
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Blackstone Publishing 2005
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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 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 half a century after its publication.

The Denial of Death was the last book Dr. Becker published before his own premature death in 1974. His insightful and powerful ideas are sure to last for generations.

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Unabridged
Street Date:
06/26/2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
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Ernest Becker. (2005). The Denial of Death. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

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Ernest Becker. 2005. The Denial of Death. Blackstone Publishing.

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Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death. Blackstone Publishing, 2005.

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Ernest Becker. The Denial of Death. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2005.

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      • content: Finishing this book, which won the Pulitzer in 1974, shortly before his own premature death, Becker called it "a bid for the peace of my scholarly soul." There are no sound effects, nor is there any crackle of dialogue, but I listened five times. Never strident or hectoring, Raymond Todd has a voice you can enjoy, even when you don't yet quite understand. "The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal," Becker writes. It's not that we're horny and don't know it, as Freud postulated. We're going to die and pretend not. To understand is to free humans from their blindest and most destructive impulses. B.H.C. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
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The Denial of Death was the last book Dr. Becker published before his own premature death in 1974. His insightful and powerful ideas are sure to last for generations.

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