Book description
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 more than twenty years after its writing.
The Chicago Sun-Times
It is hard to overestimate the importance of this book; Becker succeeds
brilliantly in what he sets out to do, and the effort was necessary.
After receiving a Ph. D. in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse
University, Dr. Ernest Becker
(1924-1974) taught at the University of California at Berkeley, San
Francisco State College, and Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is
survived by his wife, Marie, and a foundation that bears his name -- The
Ernest Becker Foundation.
